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Shift of RGUHS to Davangere opposed

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Bangalore: H.C. Balakrishna, Janata Dal (Secular) MLA for Magadi, has described Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda’s hints about shifting the proposed Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) to Davangere from Ramanagara as “political vendetta”.

He told presspersons here on Monday that the BJP was part of the previous coalition Government and both Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Mr. Ramachandra Gowda were in the Cabinet when the decision was taken to set up RGUHS at Ramanagara. “A Bill on this had been passed unanimously and none of the BJP members had raised objections then”.

Mr. Balakrishna said any effort to scuttle “pro-people schemes of the previous government is not healthy politics”. Changing the location would incur the wrath of the people of Ramanagara, cutting across party barriers.

It may be mentioned here that the Janata Dal (S)-BJP coalition government had passed a Bill to build a sprawling new campus for RGUHS in Ramanagara, complete with a super-speciality hospital and a 750-bed hi-tech hospital at a cost of Rs. 310 crore.

Mr. Ramachandra Gowda recently said that having the university campus in Ramanagara was “as good as having it in Bangalore”, and therefore, it should be shifted to a different location.

Major universities, he had said, should be spread across the State.

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