Mangaluru: Kanhaiya Kumar, Amarjeet Kaur among scholars to attend B V Kakkilaya birth centenary
The two-day event will be held on Aug 10-11
Mangaluru: The centenary birth anniversary celebrations of former MP and CPI leader BV Kakkilaya will be held at Bishop Jathanna Auditorim, Sahodaya in Balmatta here in Mangaluru on August 10 and 11, wherein Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar is also expected to address the event.
The two-day event will be inaugurated by Amarjeet Kaur at 10.am on August 10. Kaur will also address the inaugural event 'Indian Freedom Struggle and role of the movements of the working classes in nation building'.
Popular scholar and youth leader Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar who contested the Lok Sabha Election from Begusarai in Bihar will also attend the event on first day and will speak on ‘Indian Youth in Crossroads’. Kanhaiya’s address is scheduled to begin at 11.am, soon after Kaur’s inaugural address.
Kalale Parthasarathy and Dinesh Amin Mattu would also address the event later in the day on ‘National Democratic Revolution’ followed by Kanhaiya’s and Prof. Anand Teltumbde’s interaction with audience on ‘Struggles of Oppressed: Theory to Practice’. The first of the two-day event is scheduled to conclude with cultural programs by IPTA, Karnataka.
On the second day, Dr. Siddanagouda Patil will address the event on ‘BV Kakkilaya – From Malabar to Karnataka Assembly (In Kannada). Prof. Muzaffar Assadi, Shridhar Prabhu, PV Lokesh and Kagodu Thimmappa will participated address the event on ‘Land reforms in Karnataka – Past, Present and future’ (in Kannada).
Dr Siddana Gouda Patil would speak on BV Kakkilaya: from Malabar to Vidhana Soudha on August 11 at 10 am. Prof Muzafer Assadi, Shridhar Prabhu, PV Lokesh would participate in a session on Land Reforms in Karnataka, chaired by former minister Kagodu Thimmappa.
Another session on ‘Writings on Philosophy, History and Economics in Kannada’ (in Kannada) will be held under the chairmanship of Dr. G Ramakrishna. TS Venugopal, Dr. Vijay Poonchcha Thambanda, Kalale Parthasarathy will also address the event during the session.
Before the valedictory event at 7.pm on the second day, TM Krishna, Noor Zaheer will interact with the audience on ‘Reshaping Art, Beyond Caste and Gender’.
The two-day event will conclude with a vocal concert by Vidwan TM Krishna, Violin by Vidushi Akkarai Shubhalakhsmi and Mrindangam by Vidwan KU Jayachandra Rao.
The organisers have urged people to turn up in large numbers to make the event a grand success.
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Surat LS candidate Nilesh Kumbhani whose nomination form was rejected suspended from Congress
Ahmedabad, Apr 25: The Gujarat Congress on Friday suspended from the party for six years its Surat Lok Sabha candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to the BJP's Mukesh Dalal getting elected unopposed.
A statement from the Congress said the party's disciplinary committee decided to suspend Kumbhani after thorough discussion, adding it had come to the conclusion that the nomination form was rejected due to gross negligence on his part or "in connivance with the BJP".
"To be fair to you we have given time to you to explain your case but instead of coming before the party disciplinary committee you have gone incommunicado. After your form was rejected by the authorities, BJP went ahead and got form of other eight candidates withdrawn. This has deprived people of Surat their voting rights," the Congress disciplinary committee headed by Balu Patel said.
"People of Surat and party workers have become very angry due to your action and are expressing their anger in different ways. The Congress party has decided to suspend you for six years from the party," the press note said.
Kumbhani's nomination form was rejected on April 21 after his three proposers submitted affidavits to the district returning officer claiming the signatures on the document was not theirs.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same grounds.
In his order, Returning Officer Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were rejected after prima facie discrepancy was found in the signatures of the proposers and they did not appear to be genuine.
Kumbhani, a former corporator from Surat, had unsuccessfully fought the 2022 Assembly polls from Kamrej there.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency on April 22 after all other nominees, including one from BSP, withdrew from the fray one by one on the last day of withdrawing papers.
