Resign if you can’t manage, Siddaramaiah tells BS Yediyurappa

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October 6, 2019

Chikkamagaluru, Oct 6: Congress leader Siddaramaiah urged CM BS Yediyurappa to resign if he’s finding it difficult to run the state. He made the comments after visiting the families of Chandregowda and Channappa Gowda, who committed suicide following crop losses in the floods, and handing over compensation of Rs 50,000 each.

“Yediyurappa is saying he’s walking on a tightrope. The government will last only till the year-end. In 2020, the state will go in for fresh elections. BJP leaders are saying the exchequer is empty. When I was CM, the exchequer was never empty for five years. In just seven days after forming the government, BJP leaders started saying the exchequer is empty,” he said.

“The loss to farmers is over Rs 1 lakh crore, but the state government submitted a report stating Rs 38,000-crore loss. The Centre has released Rs 1,200 crore; it’s not enough. It must release Rs 5,000 crore as interim relief,” he said.

Asked why no other Congress leaders, except him, are talking against the government, he alleged the Centre is misusing agencies to silence critics. In Mangaluru, he said: “Modi’s government is fascist and he runs his administration like Hitler.”

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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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