All eyes are on the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency which is expected to
have bye-polls shortly consequent upon the election of Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda who
was earlier representing this constituency, to the Legislative Council.
Police on December 24, Sunday arrested the JD(S) leaders of Udupi district who
staged a black flag protest against the shifting of the Udupi DC office complex to Rajathadri at
Manipal End Point and also against the CM who had come to inaugurate the complex.
The news of a discord between DCC Chief B Ramanatha Rai and Legislator
UT Khader has surfaced close on the heels of complaints that the District Congress leaders were
wiling away time in a veiled war.
If an advertising company has funded the fixing of hollow bricks for the autorickshaw
park at Kalyanpur, the act of Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat in standing first in the list to take
credit for the same, has raised several eyebrows.
The CPM conference held in Mangalore recently has resolved against the
revised CDP for Mangalore, on the grounds that it was done so to suit the interests of builders.
Senior Congressman B Janardhan Poojari has come down heavily on State BJP
Chief KS Eshwarappa for offending the Governor and has said that Eshwarappa did not know
House manners.
The Puttur Block Congress President Kavu Hemanath Shetty has warned that the
Congress would launch a severe movement if the government fails to withdraw the Pushpagiri
The dissidence in the Kasargod district unit of the BJP over the leadership issue
has now reached a decisive phase. After even the state leadership failed to settle the impasse, the
issue has now landed before the Kanattur Daivasthana.
KPCC Vice-president BL Shanker has alleged that the BJP and the Sangh Parivar
leaders were misleading the public by stating that the Anti-Communal Violence Bill to be tabled
in the parliament was a bill aimed at instigating communal sentiments of the people.
“DV Sadananda Gowda is the weakest chief minister the state has ever seen. He
has the will power to resort to politics but not development,” so commented the DCC chief B
Ramanatha Rai at a press meet held in the town on November 23, Wednesday.