Four ANF men get President's medal for bravery

August 16, 2013

Mangalore, Aug 16: Three Anti Naxal Force (ANF) personnel have been conferred with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry while one ANF officer has been given the medal for meritorious service. This is the first time that serving ANF personnel have been given the President's Medal.

These three personnel are among the 21 policemen from the State to have been awarded President's Medal. Deputy Commandant H.Shankar, and Police Constables Naveen G. Naik and B.D. Pradeep have been given the medal for gallantry. They were part of the ANF team involved in a combing operation in Kakkunje Reserve forest area in Dakshina Kannada in which Maoist leader Yellappa alias Dinakar was killed on September 4, 2012.

ANF Assistant Commandant Vishwanath S. has been conferred with the President's Medal for Meritorious service. He is among the 17 personnel to have been conferred with the medal.

Inspector General of Police Alok Kumar, who then was the Commander of the ANF, said names of three personnel had been recommended in February.

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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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