Seemanth Kumar Singh among 22 policemen to get President's medal

Bangalore, Jan 26: Three police officers have been awarded the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service and 19 others the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service on the occasion of Republic Day.

The officials who have been awarded the President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service are Dr P Ravindranath, IPS, ADGP, KSRP, Bangalore; P K Shivashankara, Superintendent of Police, Lokayukta, Ramanagar, and Ravinarayan, Additional Superintendent of Police, Davanagere district.

The officials who have been awarded the President's Police Medal for Meritorious Service are Seemant Kumar Singh, IPS, IGP & Commander, ANF, Udupi; Soumendu Mukharjee, IPS, DIGP, CID, Bangalore; A G Ishwarappa, DCP, CAR, North, Bangalore City; Santhosh Kumar, SP, ANF, Udupi; H R Mahadevaiah, SP, CSP, Udupi; K R Venkatesh, SP, FPB, Bangalore; K M Gangadharappa, Commandant, 9th Batallion, KSRP, Bangalore; Ramadas Gowda, Commandant, 5th Batallion KSRP, Mysore; B C Kallappa, Commandant, 3rd Batallion KSRP, Bangalore; B S Muddumahadevaiah, SP, INT Mysore; Abdulsa Sultansa Ghori, DySP, DCRB, Belgaum; N H Siddappa, DSP,CID, Bangalore; G Gurulingappa, PSI, Banasavadi PS, Bangalore City; H K Ramarao, PSI (Wireless), Technical Stores, Bangalore; R G Nemagowda, PSI (Wireless), District Control Room, Bijapur; M K Narasimhachar, ASI, Jayalakshmipuram PS, Mysore City; Sadananda Bhandary, ASI, Ajekar PS, Udupi district; K Ravindra, HC, K G Halli PS, Bangalore City and V L N Prasanna Kumar, HC, CID, Bangalore.

Fire service

Fazlur Rahman Shariff, Regional Fire Officer, Mangalore, H M Shivannegowda, District Fire Officer, Saraswathipuram, Mysore have been awarded the Presidents Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service.

Shivashankar T N, Regional Fire Officer (Trg), RAM Fire Service Academy, Bangalore, Amanulla Khan, District Fire Officer, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, Krishnappa B, Fire Station Officer, RAM Fire Service Academy, Bangalore, Antappa, Assistant Fire Station Officer, Moodabidire, Dakshnina Kannada district, Venkatesh, Assistant Fire Station Officer, Vidhana Soudha Fire Protection Squad, Bangalore, Gajendra, Leading Fireman-1158, fire station, KGF, Kolar, Mallesh, firman-911, Saraswathipuram fire station, Mysore have been awarded the President's Fire Service Medal for Meritorious Service.

Home Guards

Five officers of the Home Guards and Civil Department have been selected for the President's Home Guards & Civil Defence Medal for Meritorious Service. The officers are Rachappa Baasappa Haadimani, platoon commander, Home Guards, Bagalkot district; N Krishnappa, Assistant Instructor, Home Guards, Kolar district; H N Ramachandra, Company Commander, Home Guards, Hassan district; R D Vinodamma, CQMS, Home Guards, Tumkur district and Amrik Singh Sehgal, Deputy Chief warden, Civil Defence, Bangalore City.

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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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