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Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Briefly

Drive against lorries

MANGALORE MARCH 22. The Regional Transport Office here has launched a drive against overloading of lorries transporting iron ore to the New Mangalore Port here from Hospet and Bellary. Cases have been filed against 216 vehicles in this connection and a fine of Rs. 3.69 lakh has been collected from their owners. Two lorries have been seized.

According to a press release, the Bellary Deputy Commissioner has been urged to ensure that the transporters do not overload their lorries. The drive will be intensified, the release says.

Ban orders

MANGALORE MARCH 22. The Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate, Arvind Shrivastava, has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code in a 200-metre radius of the 29 second pre-university examination centres in the district. The examinations will be held from March 30 to April 20. Only the candidates and the examination staff will be allowed inside the restricted area, according to an official press release.

Car festival

MANGALORE MARCH 22. The Brahmarathotsava of Sri Mahalasa Narayani Temple at Konchady will be held from Tuesday to Sunday. The festivities will commence with Dwajarohana. The mrigabette festivities will be held on Friday in the presence of the seer of Kashi Math Samsthan, Sudhindra Tirtha. The Brahmarathotsava will be held on Saturday and avabrithotsava on Sunday, according to a press release from the management committee of the temple.

New forum

MANGALORE MARCH 22. Twenty-five teachers have formed the Akhila Karnataka Shikshakara Kalyana Parishat. The organisation aims to represent more than 60 per cent of the teachers in the State.

Madhusudan Bhat, president of the association, told presspersons here on Monday that most teachers in the State worked in unaided school.They had been denied the benefits given to their counterparts in aided and Government schools. Teachers were not included under the Industrial Disputes Act or the Minimum Wages Act, and this was leading to a situation in which they were being exploited.

Exhibition

MANGALORE MARCH 22. The Mahalasa School of Art here and the Shantiniketan School of Fine Arts, Chikmagalur, in association with the Karnataka Lalitkala Academy, have organised a three-day exhibition of paintings titled "Graph" from Tuesday. The venue is the campus of the Chikmagalur-based school.

Vivek R. Gadiyar, A.K. Zubair Kudla, Satish Amtoor and Gururaj Mulki will display 24 of their graphic art paintings at the event, which will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Merger

SHIMOGA March 22. The merger of the district unit of the All-India Progressive Janata Dal with the Janata Dal (Secular) will take place at a meeting in the office of the latter here on Tuesday. The Janata Dal (S), leaders including the President of its State unit, Siddharamaiah, the party's secretary-general and spokesperson, P.G.R. Sindhia, the chairman of the parliamentary committee, M.P. Prakash, and H.D. Kumaraswamy, H.C. Mahadevappa and Anantnag will attend the meeting according to the press note from the party office.

Procession

Sirsi March 22. A large number of people participated in the Ugadi Shobayatre here on Sunday evening. Anantkumar Hegde, former MP, Visweshwar Hegde and Vivekanad Vaidya, former MLAs, Sachchidanand Jnaneshwar Swamiji of Karkimath, Gangadharendra Saraswati Swamiji of Swarnawalli Math and Shivalinga Swamiji of Bannadamath, participated.

Congress list by March 29

By Our Special Correspondent

Bangalore March 22. Stating that the first list of 125 BJP candidates for the Assembly elections announced on Sunday showed a preponderance of Bajrang Dal and VHP activists, the KPCC has said that its list of candidates will be announced by March 29. At a press conference today, the KPCC President, B. Janardhana Poojary, said that "saner elements" had been ignored in the BJP list. Denying that there was any delay on the part of the Congress in announcing its candidates, Mr. Poojary said the selection process had to be gone through.

Objection filed against candidate

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE MARCH 22. The Karnataka Rajya Adijambava Sangha, Bangalore, has filed an objection before the State Election Commission against the BJP candidate for Nelamangala (reserved) constituency, B. Guruprasad, for producing a "doctored" caste certificate to contest the coming Assembly elections. The sangha, in its letter to the commission, has alleged that Mr. Guruprasad had been working outside the country for 15 years and he had obtained citizenship of that country. Mr. Guruprasad got his name included in the voters list by providing wrong information, the sangha has alleged. It has urged the commission, the Deputy Commissioner of Bangalore Rural district and the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, Bangalore, to carefully review the matter and reject his nomination.

`BJP should be de-recognised'

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE MARCH 22. Shantaram Naik, former MP and All-India Congress Committee coordinator for elections in the State, has said that the recognition of the BJP as a national party should be withdrawn under the provisions of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 in the view of the "blatant violation of the code of conduct" by Vinay Katiyar of the party, who had made defamatory remarks against the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi. In a press release here, Mr. Naik said Mr. Katiyar's utterances attracted penal provisions under the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and the India Penal Code.

Appeal to political parties

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE MARCH 22. The Karnataka Arya Vysya Mahasabha has urged all political parties to give representation to five deserving persons belonging to the community in the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. S.A. Parthasarathy, secretary of the mahasabha, told presspersons here today that there were over five lakh people belonging to the community in the State. Only the BJP had recognised the community by selecting Krishnaiah Shetty as its candidate from the Malur Assembly constituency.

Yadavas seek eight seats

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE MARCH 22. The Karnataka Rajya Yadava Sangha has urged political parties such as the Congress, the BJP and the Janata Dal (S) to give due representation to Yadava candidates and field them in eight Assembly segments and one Lok Sabha constituency in the coming elections. The president of the sangha, D. Vasudevulu, told presspersons here today that the Yadava or Golla community had not been given due representation in the State for over five decades although its population exceeded 40 lakh. "Our community is a most backward one. Its population is dense in areas such as Chitradurga, Tumkur, Bangalore Rural, Kolar, Raichur and Bellary districts. The political parties should opt for our community candidates to contest from Mulbagal, Doddaballpur, Kolar, Varthur, Holalkere, Challakere, Bellavi and Kalmala for the Assembly elections. The Janata Dal (S) should field P. Kodandaramaiah, who once represented the community in the Lok Sabha, again from Chitradurga," he said.

Shiv Sena

to field candidates

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE MARCH 22. The State unit of the Shiv Sena has decided to field its candidates from Mangalore, Belgaum, Bijapur and Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituencies and 39 Assembly constituencies. The President of the State unit of the party, N. Subramanya Raju, told presspersons here today that the Shiv Sena's national Working President Uddhav Thackeray, had recently announced an ad hoc committee for the State. The party had 12,000 members in the State and it would mobilise a membership of one lakh shortly. Asked why the party had decided to contest independently in the State and whether its electoral alliance with the BJP was not working in the State, he said, "Shiv Sena has no inhibition in having an alliance with any political party provided it subscribes to the Sena's philosophy of Hindutva and its concept of Akhand Bharat." To another question on the Mahajan Commission's report on the border row involving Belgaum, and the anti-Kannada political stand of the Sena supported by the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi, he said, "It is all the creation of politicians."

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