Women and Child Welfare Committee to review six depts

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October 9, 2013

Mangalore, Oct 9: MLA and Women and Child Welfare Committee President Shakunthala Shetty has revealed that no complaint has been registered with the Committee with regard to the Saujanya rape and murder case, which shook the region about one year ago.

Ms Shetty was in Mangalore to inform about the review meeting of six departments to be held on Thursday and addressing the reporters about the same on Wednesday, she responded to the query with regard to the Saujanya murder case.

She said that she along with MLA Vasanth Bangera have demanded CBI probe into case, in the Assembly.

The Committee will be reviewing six department in Mangalore for the first time and the departments concerned will be questioned with regard to the same during the review meeting to be held at ZP office on Thursday, she said adding that the Committee will review various aspects pertaining to welfare and protection of women, children, persons with special needs and senior citizens.

“The Committee, moving first time outside Bangalore, held one such review meetings at Belgaum and it received good response. Encouraged by the response there are plans to convene such meetings in other parts of the state,” he said and added that Mangalore will be the second place to convene the meeting.

On Thursday, Home and Excise, Women and Child Welfare, Revenue, Health, Education and Labour departments from Udupi, DK, Chikmagalur, Hasan will be reviewed.

The proceedings of the meet will be forwarded to the Government in a form of a report and the Committee will make suitable recommendations.

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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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