Bengaluru, Apr 1 : After delaying for two weeks, the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar today accepted the resignation of the MLA Dr Umesh Jadhav.
According to official sources, the Speaker has accepted the resignation of Dr Jadhav, Who was elected to the Assembly in the 2018 Elections from Chincholi constitutency in Kalaburagi District.
After submitting his resignation to the MLA post, Dr Jadhav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is contesting for Kalaburagi Lok Sabha seat on BJP ticket against Congress strongman Mallikarjuna Kharge.
The resignation of Dr Jadhav was accepted, after the Speaker had a one-on-one meeting with the Congress MLA, last week.
While accepting the resignation of Dr Jadhav, the Speaker dismissed a petition submitted by a voter from Chincholi Assembly segment demanding him not to accept the resignation, as they had elected him for a full five year term.
With the acceptance of the resignation of Dr Jadhav, the strength of the Congress in the 225-member house was reduced to 78 followed by the BJP 105, the JD(S) 38 and Two Independents.

Kalaburagi, Apr 1 : Senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge today took strong exception against BJP Karnataka President terming AICC President as ‘Bachha’ and said that “this type of using words shows his poor culture”.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Kharge said that abuse is BJP’s best defense, but electorates of the country are observing very closely and will give a befitting reply in the General Elections. “Using this type of silly wards not useful for Mr Yeddyurappa , if he feels Mr Rahul was lier than he may file defamation case against him instead of abusing,” he added.
Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Yeddyurappa on Sunday took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi and called him ‘KID’ (Bachha) for referring to Dairy issue and alleging that he had given Rs 1800 crore to senior BJP leaders including Union Ministers.
Meanwhile BJP senior leader and former MLC K B Shanappa today Joined Congress party and Kharge welcomed him into the party fold.
Shanappa had quit BJP recently in protest against denying him the ticket for contesting from Kalaburagi and selecting Dr Umesh Jadhav.

Belagavi, Apr 1 : Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also the BJP State President,
today clarified that Ramesh Katti is not quitting the party for denying him the ticket to Chikkodi Lok Sabha seat and he will also work for the success of Annasaheb Jolle selected by the party high command.
Annasaheb Jolle will file nomination on April 3 and Suresh Angadi will file his nomination on April 4 for Chikkodi and Belagavi Lok Sabha seats respectively, he added.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Yeddyurappa claimed that BJP will win more than 20 seats in the State and more than 300 seats in the country. He also expressed confident of Prime Minister Narendra Modi continuing in his post even after General Election.
Yeddyurappa alleged that Chief Minister H D Kumarswamy is making false promises and it also included waiver of farmers loan to the tune of Rs 45,000 Crore. “Till date only Rs 4500 crore was released in this regard”, he added.
The former Chief Minister alleged that Kumaraswamy is misusing official machinery for the success of his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy who is contesting for Mandya Lok Sabha seat.
Ramesh Katti, who was also present, said that he will abide by the party High Command direction and work for the success of the party candidate in the Lok Sabha election.

Bengaluru, Mar 30 : The All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi has issued a stern warning to the party leaders and workers working against the interests of Congress-JD(S) alliance candidates in the Karnataka in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.
According to the KPCC sources, the Congress president had sent instructions to all the party-men not to derail the Congress-JD(S) pre-poll alliance in the state, by working against the coalition candidates.
Stating that there is an urgent need to defeat the communal forces which are threatening to destroy the plural character of the country, the AICC president had appealed the party-men not to do anything which would weaken the secular forces.
Incidentally following sustained efforts the rebellion in the party at Tumakuru Lok Sabha seat where the sitting Congres MP, Mudduhanumegowda was convinced to withdraw from the fray as a rebel candidate after the seat was allocated to JD(S) and former prime minister H D Devegowda is contesting from this segment.
Another former Congress MLA, N Rajanna was also pursued to fall in line in the same segment.
The missive from the AICC president, warned the rebels of stringent disciplinary action if they made any attempt to work against the party interests, assumed importance following reports that in several Lok Sabha constituencies, synergy between the Congress and the JD(S) leaders was lacking and they were reluctant to campaign for JD(S) candidates.
On Thursday, in Mysuru, several JD(S) leaders including Higher education minister G T Devegowda and the Tourism minister S R Mahesh were absent when the Congress candidate C H Vijayashankar had filed his nomination papers for the Mysuru Lok Sabha seat.
In Mandya Lok Sabha seat, where independent candidate Sumalatha is contesting with the support of the BJP, against the JD(S) candidate Nikhil, several Local Congress leaders are actively taking part during the campaign.
The Congress and the JD(S), both of which had arrived for a seat sharing agreement, are contesting in 21 and 7 seats respectively in Karnataka.

Kalaburagi, Mar 30 : A government primary school head master was suspended on Saturday for posting and Election campaigning on Social media.
According to Kalaburagi Deputy Director of Public instruction (DDPI) office release , Mr Lakshman Hanumanth Jogour, a Primary school head master working at Devalgangapur village of Afzalpur taluk was suspended on immediate effect for posting election campaign mater in Social media like WhatsApp and Facebook. He was also uploading Prime Minister Narendra Modi photos on the Facebook.
In the order the district DDPI Shantgowda Patil said that the head master violated the 3.5 and 16 chapters of Government Employees Rule 1966 by posting such social media messages when Election Code of Conduct was in place.

Bengaluru, Mar 30 : Calling series of IT department raids on supporters of JD(S) and Congress leaders during the last few days as political vendetta played by Narendra Modi government at the centre, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has sought ?immediate? intervention by the Election Commission.
Meanwhile I-T officials continued their raid for the third day on Saturday.
They raided the rice and sugar mills run by Congress and JD(S) workers till 4 am today and put spy cams on their premises, Mr Kumaraswamy alleged.
Disguising themselves as railway officials, they borrowed vehicles and are now staying at CFTRI Mysuru,? he charged.
The Chief Minister called the raids was a shameful attempt to threaten and generate fear among our workers. He requested the Election Commission ?to immediately intervene and stop this harassment of our workers.?

Bengaluru, Mar 29 : Bengaluru South BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya has invited the wrath of the Congress for his comments posted in his tweeter account
stating that those who oppose Narendra Modi are opposing India.
In his March 22 posting, the young BJP activist had stated that ‘If you with Modi you are with India. If your not with Modi, then you are strengthening anti India Forces.

The State Congress leaders has registered a complaint with the Election commission seeking to take an immediate action against the BJP candidate.

Greater Noida, March 29 (Nasheman News) Eight persons, including a woman, were killed, and 24 others injured on Friday when a speeding bus rammed into a truck from the rear on the Yamuna Expressway here, police in Uttar Pradesh said.

The accident occurred at around 5 a.m. near Karauli village some 29 kilometre from the Expressway Zero point. 

The bus packed with passengers was headed to Noida from Agra when its driver apparently missed the truck in the dark and hit it from the rear.

The impact of the collision was such that the front part of the bus was completely damaged. 

Villagers from nearby informed the police and also helped in the rescue.

“Teams were immediately rushed to the spot. The injured were pulled out of the badly damaged bus and admitted to Kailash Hospital in nearby Jewar,” SHO Rabupura, Sunil Kumar Singh told IANS.

The bus driver is among those killed. The bodies have been sent for autopsies, Singh added.

The police is trying to establish the sequence of events and trying to record eyewitness accounts.

New Delhi, March 29 (Nasheman News) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the Congress, while accusing it of coining the “Hindu terror” slogan and filing cases based on fake evidence to gain political mileage.

Days after an anti-terror court in Haryana acquitted Swami Aseemanand in the 2007 bombing of the Samjhauta Express, Jaitley said a decision has to be taken in the end. 

“Perhaps because of this, those who considered Hindus as terrorists are now trying to prove their devotion towards religion,” he told the media, adding that the trial in court happened on the basis of evidence collected during the UPA regime.

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that during the tenure of the UPA, when there was no evidence, the theory of Hindu terror was floated for the first time in the history of the country to tarnish the Hindu community. 

“Three-four similar cases were made but none of them could stand in the court. The Congress floated the fake theory of Hindu terror to gain political mileage and tarnished the entire Hindu community. They should apologise to the community,” he said.

Last week, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here acquitted all four accused, including Aseemanand, in the February 2007 Samjhauta Express train blast which killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis.

Slamming the Congress, Jaitley said: “The judgment makes it clear that it was a trial of no evidence… So many innocent people died. Who will take responsibility of this? The responsibility lies with the UPA leadership. The society will not forgive them.

“You did not go towards the real culprits. To create a theory of Hindu terror, you caught the wrong people.”

The NIA court had in January 2014 framed charges against Aseemanand, Kamal Chauhan, Rajinder Chaudhary and Lokesh Sharma.