Over one lakh people to attend Mangalore Division 'Sanghik'

January 30, 2013

Mangalore, Jan 30: More than one lakh people are expected to participate in the Mangalore vibhag (division) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) meet 'Sanghik' to be held on February 3.

RSS Sarasanghchalak Mohan M Bhagwat will attend the Sanghik.

RSS media in-charge Ravichandra PM said that the numbers will cross the one lakh mark of which 75,000 will be uniformed RSS swayamsevaks and rest will be well wishers. Not being able to accommodate such a huge crowd at the Nehru Maidan here, the 'Sanghik' which will also intends to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, will be held in 65 acre space available near the old airport at Bajpe.

Mangalore division comprises of the districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu and Kasargod district in Kerala. The last Mangalore division sanghik was held in Mangalore in 1995, which was attended by 45,000. It was attended by Rajendra Singh also known as Rajju Bhaiya, the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the RSS. He was chief of RSS between 1994 and 2000. One unique feature of this Sanghik preparation which has been going since six months is that there will no posters, flex banners or handouts. "The awareness campaign will be carried out all villages by the swayamsevaks through door to door visit. Already 1,152 villages have been covered," said Ravichandra.

Preparations at the venue is on full swing which includes leveling the grounds and erecting the huge pandal.

RSS founded in 1925 by K B Hedgewar had entered Mangalore in 1940. Since then, it has its presence in 80% of the villages in the districts under the purview of Mangalore Vibhag, said Mr Ravichandra.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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