QBengaluru: CM Yediyurappa Gets 3 Deputies, And More
Latest news and updates from Karnataka.
advertisement
1. BSY Toes the Party Line, Finally Names 3 Deputy CMs
In a first, Karnataka will have three deputy chief ministers as Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday allocated portfolios to 17 ministers after they were inducted on 20 August.
Giving in to the party diktat, Yediyurappa appointed three deputies — Laxman Savadi (Lingayat), CN Ashwath Narayan (Vokkaliga) and Govind Karjol (SC). This is said to be part of a larger plan to groom leaders and infuse young blood in the party.
Within hours, resentment singed the party with senior ministers R Ashoka and CT Ravi returning official cars in clear expression of disappointment with the choice of ministry. Yediyurappa has retained finance, Bengaluru development portfolio, agriculture and energy, besides half-a-dozen minor portfolios.
(Source: The Times of India)
2. SC Rejects 17 Cong-JD(S) Rebels’ Plea for Urgent Hearing
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea by the 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka, who sought an urgent hearing on the matter of their disqualification. These MLAs of the former JD(S)-Congress coalition government had resigned from their positions to pave way for the BJP to form a government in the state.
The rebels, represented by former Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi, approached the apex court to quash and set aside the former Speaker Ramesh Kumar’s order dated 28 July 2019, which rejected the resignations of the rebels and disqualified them.
The 17 rebels include Pratap Gouda Patil, BC Patil, Shivaram Hebbar, ST Someshekhar, Byrati Basavraj, Anand Singh, R Roshan Baig, Muniratna, K Sudhakar, MTB Nagaraj, Shrimant Patil, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumatahalli and R Shankar from the Congress and JD(S) legislators AH Vishwanath, Gopalaiah and Narayana Gowda.
(Source: The News Minute)
3. Drowning was the Cause of VG Siddhartha's Death: Forensic Report Concludes
Almost a month after the death of Coffee Day founder VG Siddartha, investigating officials concluded that the entrepreneur took his own life. The body of the 60-year old, who went missing on 29 July at the Nethravati Bridge in Mangaluru, was found near an ice-plant at Hoige Bazar about 9 km away from the bridge.
The probe into his mysterious death is still underway. However, investigating officials revealed that Siddartha died after he drowned in the river. "Due to submersion in water, the fluid entered the air passages of the body, which put the body into a condition called Asphyxia (deficient supply of oxygen), which subsequently led to the death," an official familiar with the report said.
Rescue officials recovered Siddartha’s body over 18 hours after he drowned and a substantial amount of water had entered his lungs, the official added.
(Source: The News Minute)
4. CM Orders Probe Into Indira Canteen, Nagarothana Schemes
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday ordered an inquiry into the alleged misuse of subsidy by operators of Indira Canteens in Bengaluru and a separate probe into suspected irregularities in urban renewal initiative ‘Mukhya Mantri Nagarothana’.
With this, the BJP government is now looking into five decisions and controversies linked to the previous governments headed by Siddaramaiah and HD Kumaraswamy. The IMA fraud, phone tapping claims and whitetopping works are the other issues under scrutiny. The growing number of inquiries contradict Yediyurappa’s stated position: Shortly after taking office in July, he had vowed that he would not pursue vendetta politics.
Indira Canteen was Siddaramaiah’s pet project when he was the CM.
(Source: The Times of India)
5. Rowdy, Realtor Friend Hacked in Supari Killing
A gangster and his realtor friend were brutally murdered by an armed gang in southern Bengaluru on Sunday night in what the police described as murders driven by old rivalry and family enmity.
Manjunatha alias Tamma Manja, 27, and his friend Varun Reddy, 24, were riding a scooter in JP Nagar when a group of six to seven men followed them in a Hyundai i10. The car driver tried to ram the scooter near an Axis Bank ATM at 24th Cross in Puttenahalli Junction around 11:35 pm. Alarmed by this, Manjunatha accelerated but the car driver eventually got close enough to ram the scooter.
While Manjunatha and Reddy fell off the scooter, the car hit a footpath and crashed into an electricity pole before coming to a halt. The assailants quickly got off the car and attacked Reddy with lethal weapons. One of them took a knife and stabbed him to death.
(Source: Deccan Herald)