Congress stages protest against installation of Savarkar’s portrait
Belagavi: Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar’s portrait was unveiled in Karnataka’s Suvarna Vidhana Soudha Assembly Hall this morning, the first day of the winter session of the Karnataka
Legislature in Belagavi. The Government unveiled six portraits of significant personalities in the Assembly Hall, one of which is of Veer Savarkar.
A security blanket has been thrown across Belagavi city for the session amid fears over the border row with Maharashtra and disruption due to protests by various communities. The entire city resembles a cantonment of sorts. Nearly 5,000 Policemen, including six Superintendents of Police, 11 Additional Superintendents of Police, 43 Deputy SPs, 95 Inspectors and 241 Sub-Inspectors, have been deployed for maintaining law and order in the city.
This morning, members of Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti (MES) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) staged a protest near Kognoli Toll Plaza at Karnataka-Maharashtra border over the border issue.
This session is the last one of the current Assembly, as the elections are barely four months away. The proceedings are likely to see commotion inside the House with political parties trying to draw the attention of people with their protests.
Congress MLAs staged a protest along with Leader of Opposition Siddharamaiah against the installation of Veer Savarkar’s portrait. They have written to the Speaker to install portraits of personalities like Valmiki, Basavanna, Kanakadasa, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and many others.
KPCC President and MLA D.K. Shivakumar alleged that the BJP wanted the Assembly proceedings to be disrupted and it is because of this that they had installed a portrait of Veer Savarkar in the Assembly Hall.
“They want that our Assembly proceedings do not take place. They have brought this photo because we are going to raise a lot of corruption issues against them. They don’t have any development agenda,” he said.
Karnataka Legislative Council Chairman Raghunath Rao Malkapure said 14 Bills are likely to be tabled in the House. The voter data theft issue is likely to be raised prominently during the session. Leader of the Opposition and former CM Siddharamaiah said that his party will raise several issues including voter data theft. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the Bill to replace the SC/ST Reservation Ordinance is one among a set of draft laws to be introduced.
More than 61 organisations have sought permission from the district administration to hold protests during the Assembly session. The security in the district has been tightened and vehicles from Maharashtra are being checked thoroughly.
Belagavi is just an arid place, which was absorbed into Old Mysore with similar arid regions of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu including the very arid toddy tapping patch of Surathkal including Mangalore to form Karnataka , which has been a disaster for Old Mysore .
In a few years time, the Belagavi region will be sliced off , amalgamating the Marathi speaking areas there into Maharashtra.
Caterpillar moustached Lingayat Bommai, from these arid regions, is a dullard CM, whose even with the Yedi, the RSS Cheddi’s help will not win the next election.
The Congress, better wheel out Rahul Gandhi into another padayatra, this time in Karnataka alone. Gowdas will not vote for Bommai. If BJP loses this state, it will remain purely a Hindi belt party, which it really is.
In these last 2 decades Siddu is best CM we had with lots of good pro people policies and no allegations of land scam or corruption from government level, he gave a good stable pro development government for 5 years, I hope Karnataka will realize and bring back Siddu to power to provide stable and pro development government where as other neighboring states are immensely developing and attracting investors worldwide we will be left behind if do not elect good government.
Hello Ganesh
Investors do not come to India to invest, but to outsource the IT work etc.. as Indian provides IT cheap labour and other services at the fraction of the cost that they will have to pay for such work and services in their own Western countries.
Just look at the USD Vs INR currency conversion rate. INR is worth as much as a toilet paper in those countries.
Now, as for Siddaramaiah, you are right, he was far more professional and better administrator as the CM, than the RSS thug Yedi, the corrupt Cheddi or his side kick Bommai-even the BJP high command of Amit Shah and others considers this Lingayat Mafia now in government as scoundrels and corrupt kings. Look at how they have become notorious by demanding 40% commission to their pockets on all contracts awarded.
The real power behind this Lingayat mafia that is governing the state, are the Saffron-clad so called God men-Suttur Seer and other Lingayt Seers who are really the politicos, interesting in power rather than giving spiritual lead . They had no influence on Siddaramaiah, as he is a Kuruba and did not give a damn about these saffron clad politicos, and their un-Godly machinations!!
It is very evident that the Lingayat Cabal of Bommai, Yedi, and others who are the most corrupt politicians in the recent decades-before them, there was another Lingayat cabal of Nijalingappa, Jatti and Veerendra Patil, equally corrupt who ruined what was good in the Old Mysore state. It was Nijalingappa, who was called the Father of Corrruption in those days-he looked like the toady Bommai, and fought to get Belgavi and other dry rid desert region where Lingayat s dominated , while they were in the then Maharashtra state.
Nijalingappa, Jatti and Veerendra Patil tried their best to make Belagavi the citadel of Lingayats and the second capital of the ill-fated Karnataka, it was developed with money poured into it, but yet it being a dry arid ;patch did not take off then.
Now this cabal of Yedi and Bommai are trying that failed experiment. But dullards as they are, did not realise that Belgavi has a large Marathi-speaking population in adjoining villages, and they are very strong in demanding to be back into their native Maharashtra. Modi government , pressurised by Shiv Sena , will slice off these regions and relocate them to Maharashtra. Modi knows Yedi and Bommai are weak leaders,
This gimmick of holding the assembly gathering will not work with Modi, given the large population of Marathi-speaking mass in Belgavi region. I would give the lot-Belgavi and its regions to Mahrashtra again.
Karnataka formation has been a dismal failure.
Agree.
Support for Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti (MES), is growing among the significant population of Marathi -speaking citizens of this place Belgaum-not the crap name Belagavi, which does not belong to the so called Karnataka State.
Amit Shah and other BJP leaders do not want to be on the wrong side of Shiv Sena and Maharashtrians, and hence, they will cave into the demand of the Maharashtra Ekikarana Samiti (MES). A large Part of Belgaum will be awarded to Maharashtra.
I agree with the arguments of the above posters.
If you visit Belgaum, that is the real name of this place, You can see the rich traditions of Maharashtra in ALL of Belgaum and the surrounding villages. This is the clear evidence that Belgaum belongs to Maharashtra.
Kerala government, encouraged by Narendra Modi is playing much cleverer game in regards to Mysore. The Mysore airport expansion to take in medium -haul A320/737 jetliners means more frequent flights to Kerala, as well as the UAE-Mysore non-stop flights which Narendra Modi agreed with the Keralite businessmen resident in the UAE. Modi also likely to agree the rail route to Kerala under the tunnel of the Bandipur preservation area over ruling Bommai, and agreeing with Kerala CM.
MP Simha who has very little brain power, has been encouraging the expansion of the services of the new fast Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai express frequency. He is promoting Hassan-Kodagu-Kerala highway too.
Mysore-Bangalore 10-lane highway is encouraging Bangalore resident Tamilians- nearly 50% of Bangalore residents are Tamilians, they do not speak Kannada at all, to move in large numbers to Mysore, creating Greater Mysore. Keralites are given excellent opportunities by Modi and the stupidity of Bommai and MP Simha, to arrive in large numbers to settle in Greater Mysore.
Some time ago, SOM Vikram noted that like Bangalore, Kannada is not spoken in vast areas of Mysore, and this situation will become much worse, as Tamilians and Keralites outnumber Kannada-speaking people in Mysore.
Then there will be no necessity to annex Mysore to Tamil Nadu or Kerala as Tamilians and Keralites out number Kannadigas in Mysore, and Kannada becomes the third language spoken by a tiny minority!