Srinivas Poojary holds state govt responsible for unsolved sand issue in Udupi

coastaldigest.com web desk

October 22, 2018

Udupi, Oct 22: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Kota Srinivas Poojary, has said that the State government and the district administration had failed completely in solving the sand extraction issue in Udupi district.

Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Poojary said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fully supported the strike (since withdrawn) of the owners of the trucks.

The delay in identification of sand blocks and sand bars in the district had affected the livelihood of the truck operators and workers in the construction sector and allied sectors. Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy had directed the Deputy Commissioners of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts to allow sand extraction from October 15.

Minister for Women and Child Development Jaimala, who is also Udupi district in-charge, had directed the officers to allow sand extraction at a tri-monthly Karnataka Development Programme meeting here on October 3.

Despite these directions, the district administration had been going slow on the issue, he said.

Hence, the sand extractors, engineers association and the constructor sector workers association had called for an indefinite dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office here from Thursday. BJP legislators will take part in the dharna till the demands of these associations are met.

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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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