Just as in Mangalore, protests are also being held in Udupi, Puttur and other places
against the ministers involved in the blue film scandal that has rocked the state. Meanwhile, a
demand is also heard to arrest Palemar.
The people of Sullia taluk, the home town of Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda are facing
myriads of problems due to the apathy of the government. Reports reveal that the government has not
appointed village accountants to most of the gram panchayats in the taluk, thus seriously hampering
various works and creating a vast backlog of files.
JD(S) leader and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has assured to visit the
places affected by the UPCL thermal plant shortly to have first hand information of the problems
due to the project. He has also assured to announce his party’s future course of action against the
project after his visit.
Nooruddin Salmara, advocate and District Secretary of the Muslim Central
Committee has demanded that State Minorities Corporation Chairman Anwar Manippady
be dismissed for supporting RSS leader Kalladka Prabhaker Bhat who has delivered a
provocative speech during the Uppinangady Hindu Samajotsav.
The Puttur Block Congress has strongly condemned the Mangalore MP Nalin
Kumar Kateel for his reported offending remarks against the Father of the Nation.
It has been gathered that the Sangh Parivar leadership has directed Chief
Minister DV Sadananda Gowda against meeting spiritual head of Muslims Sayyed Fazal
Koyamma Tangal, son of the Ullal Tangal, residing in Koora Bareppadi in Puttur.
Congress leader and Puttur TMC Opposition leader Mohammad Ali has made a
mockery of District Minister Krishna Palemar by stating it was better for Palemar to run around
wearing a burqah.
District BJP General Secretary Sanjeeva Matandoor has said the disturbance during
the Hindu Samajotsav at Uppinangady was pre-planned and suspected a conspiracy by the KFD
and the Congress.
The Congress Party has declared that it would organize a Bharatiya Saamajotsav to
counter the Hindu Samajotsav of the RSS which, it said, only aimed at disrupting peace in the
society by targeting other religions.
Senior Congress leader and former minister H K Patil has said that the party would
elect a consensus candidate for the Udupi Chikmagalur LS seat in the next two days.