Rotary Vandana Awards presented to Salumara Thimmakka, Ramakrishna Mission

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April 27, 2019

Mangaluru April 27: Eminent Environmentalist Salumara Thimmakka and Ramkrishna Mission have been conferred with the Rotary Annual State Level prestigious “Vandana Award” at a function held on 26.04.2019 at Ocean Pearl Hotel. The award is conferred on them in recognition of their exemplary achievements and in appreciation of their invaluable contributions, in the field of Environment protection, Empowerment and Swach Mangalore Movement . The award is jointly instituted by Rotary Club of Mangalore Central and Rotaract Club of Mangalore City.

Rotary District Asst. Governor Rtn. Kiran Prasad Rai graced the occasion as chief guest and presented the Awards to the achievers and congratulated them. In his address and lauded the community services of Rotary Club. He also released clubs weekly bulletin “Centor”.

Chairman of the Award Selection Committee Dr. Devdas Rai in his introductory address revealed that the Annual Vandana Award is Conferred on achievers and it is a part of clubs vocational service project. He Congratulated Salumara Thimmakka and Ramakrishna Mission on their unique achievements in the field of Environment Protection and Empowerment.

Responding to the felicitations the awardees expressed their gratitude to the Rotary Club and said that they deemed it as a privilege and honour to accept the Awards, which is very valuable among the awards they have won.

President Rtn. Santhosh Shet presided over the function. Secretary Joel Lobo presented the Report, District Rotaract Representative Rtr. Ganesh was present, Rotaract Club Secretary Rtr. Sheldon Crasta proposed a vote of thanks.

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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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