Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released the fifth list of its eight candidates on Tuesday. The party released the fourth list of its seven candidates yesterday. The saffron party had announced 72 candidates in the first list and 82 candidates in the second list and 59 candidates in the third list.
Constituency and names of BJP candidates in the 5th list:
1)Arasikere= Mariswamy
2)Sakleshpura(SC)= Somashekhar
3)Madhugiri= Ramesh Reddy
4)Shira= S R Gowda
5)Shidlaghatta= H. Suresh
6)Srinivaspura= Dr.Venugopal
7)Mandya= Chandagala Shivanna
8)Melukote= Shivalinge Gowda
Earlier, the Karnataka BJP has appointed party state chief BS Yeddyurappa’s son BY Vijayendra as the Yuva Morcha state general secretary. According to reports, BS Yeddyurappa reportedly refuses to discuss the issue of his son BY Vijayendra with party high command. Yesterday, BSY had announced that BY Vijayendra will not contest from Varuna against Dr. Yathindra.
‘This is a Hindu house, Congressmen stay away’, reads poster in poll bound in coastal Karnataka : Karnataka Assembly 2018
Amidst the election heat, posters banning Congressmen have come up outside houses in Bantwal, coastal Karnataka. The posters were found outside several houses in Kanyana village asking Congress leaders to stay away.
“This is a Hindu house. Congress leaders who supported the conversion of Ganyashri through lies are not allowed here,” the posters in Kannada read. The poster also said,” even our house has a girl child.”
The issue relating to a girl called Ganyashri had created a row in this village. She is alleged to have eloped as a result of which the family faced embarrassment as her engagement was fixed. The residents of this village suspect the role of some Congress leaders. They say that the girl was converted by deceit.
Sco Meet In China Sushma says for fight against terror, protectionism.
Swaraj also called for identifying States that encourage and finance terrorism and provide sanctuary to terror groups.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that terrorism is an enemy of the basic human rights and the fight against it should also identify States that encourage, support and finance the menace and provide sanctuary to terror groups.
Swaraj, during her address at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers here, raised the issue of global terrorism and protectionism.
There are a number of challenges that are being faced by the world today, foremost being the threat of global terrorism and the imminent need to build a strong security architecture to combat it, the minister said.
“Terrorism is an enemy of the basic human rights: of life, peace and prosperity,” Swaraj said.
“Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade. India is committed to working with the SCO to strengthen our economic and investment ties,” she said.
We believe that economic globalization should be more open, inclusive, equitable and balanced for mutual benefits,” Swaraj added.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday was welcomed by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) ministerial meeting.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also landed in Beijing earlier on Tuesday to attend preparatory meetings with the External Affairs Minister on the sidelines of the SCO meeting.
On Monday Swaraj met China’s President Xi Jinping along with the Foreign Ministers of various other countries who had come to attend the SCO summit.
In Major Hindutva Push, BJP Brings in Yogi Adityanath to Address 35 Rallies : Karnataka Assembly 2018
UP CM Yogi Adityanath, from May 3, will be addressing close to three dozen rallies in poll-bound Karnataka. The decision came as the party felt that Yogi’s Hindutva image, plus the Nath sect’s connect to Lingayats and the anti-caste movement initiated by Gau Rakha Peeth, will cut ice in elections. Meanwhile, the Karnataka BJP has appointed party state chief BS Yeddyurappa’s son BY Vijayendra as the Yuva Morcha state general secretary. The party, in its tweet announcing the decision, said that Vijayendra would “be campaigning extensively for candidates in the Old Mysuru region”. This pretty much means that Vijayendra will not be contesting the assembly polls this time around.
IT raid on Minister H C Mahadevappa’s residence?
It was earlier reported that Income Tax officials raided the residence of PWD minister H C Mahadevappa. But later IT department clarified that no such raid took place.
IT department said that raids on some contractors were carried out in Bengaluru and Mysuru.
It was reported in the morning that the raid took place when the minister was at home.
Reacting to the earlier news CM Siddaramaiah had said, “I am not aware of any such news,”
Meanwhile while the rumours were spread on the IT raid, H C Mahadevappa was unaware of these developments. It is said that he was busy in his constituency.
Soldier injured in J&K forest shootout, succumbs
An Indian Army soldier injured earlier on Tuesday in a shootout between militants and security personnel in Jammu and Kashmirs’ Tral forest area, has succumbed, police said.
Ajay Kuamr of 42 Rashtriya Rifles died at the Army Base Hospital here.
Kumar was injured when security forces, including the Rashtriya Rifles (RR), state police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) started a joint operation against hiding militants in the Lam area in Pulwama district, a police officer said
A cordon and search operation is on in the area, he added.
BJP releases fourth list of candidates for Karnataka polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its fourth list of seven candidates for the May 12 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly.
As per the list, finalised by the party’s Central Election Committee, G.R. Pravin Patil will contest from Bhadravati in Shivamogga district, and Kannada cine star Jaggesh from Yeshvanthapura in the Bengaluru suburbs.
The party has fielded Lallesh Reddy from B.T.M. Layout in Bengaluru South, H. Lilavathi from Ramanagaram, Nandini Gowda from Kanakapura, H.K. Suresh from Belur and J. Preetham Gow from Hassan.
Lallesh, the nephew of Ballari mining baron G. Janardhan Reddy, is pitted against Congress nominee and state Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy.
The party has till date announced candidates for 220 assembly segments and is yet to name its contestants for the remaining four seats – Varuna, Badami, Siddlaghatta and Sakleshpura.
The party had earlier released names of 213 candidates in three lists of 72 on April 8, 82 on April 16 and 59 on April 20.
Tuesday is the last date for filing of nominations. Scrutiny is on April 25 and April 27 is the last date for withdrawal of nominations.
In a related development, party’s Chief Ministerial candidate B.S. Yeddyurappa told reporters at Mysuru that his second son Vijayendra would not contest from Varuna in Mysuru district from where state Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has fielded his eldest son Yatindra this time as the Congress candidate.
“My son Vijayendra is not filing nomination from Varuna. A party worker will be fielded and will file the nomination,” said Yeddyurappa, seeking support of the party’s cadres, upset by his decision and raised slogans against party President Amit Shah.
“I wholeheartedly standby & support (the) party’s decision in all circumstances. I urge the party cadre to maintain peace & tranquility which is of foremost importance,” tweeted Vijayendra.
Siddaramaiah, who won from Varuna, which is his home constituency, twice since 2008, is contesting from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru and Badami in Vijayapura district.
BJP workers go violent Because of Yeddyurappa withdraws Vijayendra from Varuna,
After B S Yeddyurappa’s decision on withdrawing the ticket to his son to challenge from Varuna constituency, the furious supporters of Vijayendra went on a strike. Vijayendra was campaigning in the constituency for as long as 15 days and was preparing to document his nomination papers before his father took a U-turn.
Amid the meeting at Nanjangud, senior BJP pioneers including B Sreeramulu and V Srinivasa Prasad, approached the activists to work for Vijayendra. Yeddyurappa, who talked toward the end of the meeting, had everybody astonished by reporting that Vijayendra would not challenge from Varuna electorate. Before long, the furious followers of Vijayendra went insane. They organized a flash protest and demanded Yeddyurappa to offer a ticket to Vijayendra. The party went to a granulating end and the dissenters vented out their outrage by throwing the chairs and other equipment.
Afterward, the party workers organized a protest before the President Hotel, where Yeddyurappa was staying. They even reprimanded former MLA S A Ramadas.
At the point when the situation went out of control, Police Commissioner Dr. Subramanyeswara Rao requested the police staff to utilize lathis to scatter the group. After lathi-charge, the group was scattered.
With world’s largest online recruitment drive, Railways set to ‘save 10 lakh trees’
That some 2.37 crore people have applied as the Indian Railways kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000 posts is clearly indicative of the “jobless growth” the country is experiencing.
But the exercise has a positive side – by taking the recruitment process online, the Railways is estimated to have saved 7.5 crore paper sheets, or the equivalent of “10 lakh trees”, according to a senior Railway Ministry official.
The state-run transporter has replaced bulky, multi-lingual question booklets with online tests for its recruitment process for various positions — ranging from assistant loco pilot to technician, trackman, gateman and pointsman.
“There are 62,000 posts involving track inspection crews and others related to improving safety, while more than 26,000 posts relate to engine drivers and technicians; for these, more than two crore people have applied,” said the senior official, who is involved with the recruitment process.
The examination will be conducted online at about 300 centres and the Railways is currently working out details.
“One applicant generally requires three-four paper sheets of A4 size to write the examination. So with the whole exercise going online, the Railways has saved a significant quantity of paper sheets,” the official said.
Describing the exercise as a “largest online recruitment drive in the world”, the official said “it is not only providing thousands of jobs, the whole process has also resulted in saving about 7.5 lakh paper sheets and 10 lakh trees approximately”.
The fee has been kept at Rs 500 and Rs 250 to keep out non-serious applicants who apply but fail to appear for the test. For general candidates, the examination fee is Rs 500, of which Rs 400 will be returned to the candidate after he or she appears in the examination.
The fee is Rs 250 for SC/ST, women, those who are physically challenged, applicants from economically weaker sections, ex-servicemen — and the full amount will be returned to the candidates after appearing in the examination.
“We are expecting maximum number of applicants to appear and only about 5-10 per cent absent at various centres this time,” the official said.
Railway, which currently employs 1.3 million people, has made special arrangements to ensure that the website does not crash during the examination. The site was earlier able to handle the traffic of the online application process.
Earlier, recruitment examinations used to be conducted manually, but the Railways had to abandon the system and opt for online mode after a few alleged incidents of question paper leaks.
The online test has resulted in substantial saving of time and resources while at the same time bringing transparency in the recruitment process, the official said.
(IANS)
MLA K B Prasanna Kumar filed nomination From Shivamogga on April 23
Occupant MLA K B Prasanna Kumar,recorded his nomination papers for the Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 on April 23.
A huge crowd of Congress workers had assembled at Ashoka Circle close to the bus stand at 11 AM on Monday. From here, Prasanna Kumar alongside his supporters continued towards Shivamogga City Corporation Office and documented his nomination papers.
Talking to the media people in the wake of documenting nomination, he stated, “My plan for election is the development of just for now and future.” He likewise asserted that the Congress party was secular and did not support communal politics.
Predicting the result he stated, “I am confident of winning with a margin of 25000 votes. I am sure a result of the love and support of the general public I have gotten until now. It is simply because of their love that I am challenging this election.”