Karnataka - Others   

`Many leaders set to join Janata Dal (S)'

By Our Staff Correspondent

DAVANGERE, JAN. 22. Syed Saifulla, Janata Dal (S) General Secretary and former chairman of the State Minorities Commission, today claimed that many prominent leaders would join the JD(S) soon and expressed confidence that the party would emerge as a strong regional party and win the coming elections.

Mr. Saifulla told presspersons here that many prominent leaders had already announced that they had joined the JD(S) and many others from different parties had expressed their desire to join the party.

Leaders and workers of the AIPJD in Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur, and Bellary districts had already joined the JD(S), he claimed.

To a question, he said people were fed up with the Congress Government because of what he termed its failure to take effective drought relief measures in the State.

Thousands of villages were without potable water. Describing the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, as a "hi-tech Chief Minister", he said Mr. Krishna only spoke of making Bangalore another Singapore or about setting up IT parks in Bangalore.

Seeks probe

Mr. Saifulla called for a judicial inquiry into the repeated communal clashes at Malebennur for the past two months and said that both the Police Department and the Intelligence wing had failed to bring peace to Malebennur.

It was surprising how communal disturbances recurred in such a small village despite the presence of a large police force.

Hence, it was appropriate to institute a judicial inquiry into the incidents.

He said that the people of the village were living in fear.

The district administration should start rehabilitating those who had lost their property in the violence and distribute foodgrains to the affected people.

A number of families had left the village fearing that the police might arrest them, he added.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Karnataka

News: Front Page | National | Tamil Nadu | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Kerala | New Delhi | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Updates: Breaking News |

Stories in this Section

• `Many leaders set to join Janata Dal (S)'
• Swamiji cancels `Taralabalu Hunnime'
• `Realise Rajiv Gandhi's dream of gram swarajya'
• Mob demands release of `fake businessmen'
• Shanthi Sagara water for Chitradurga
• Change in train timings sought
• Drought: Ministerial team to visit Delhi

Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu