Mangaluru: Two prisoners test positive for Covid-19; Bajpe station sealed down
Mangaluru: Two men who had been in the custody of the Bajpe police tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, the station officer has said.
The two arrested men, aged 34 and 26 years, were residents of Bajpe. They were arrested on Tuesday by the Bajpe police under suspicion of planning cattle theft. They were later taken for a Corona test – the report received today showed them to have been infected, said the officer.
The two men were arrested by eight police staff members, and there is suspicion of the police too being infected. The throat swab samples of the police staff members have been sent to the District Wenlock Hospital.
As a precautionary measure, the Bajpe police station has been sealed down, said sources in the Police Department.
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NCP (SP) files complaint with ECI over poll symbol allotted to independent candidate in Baramati
Pune, Apr 23: The Nationalist Congress Party (SP) has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the symbol of a trumpet-like instrument allotted to an independent candidate contesting from its stronghold, Baramati, in Maharashtra's Pune district.
The NCP (SP) has claimed that the ECI has allotted a trumpet-like symbol to independent candidate Shaikh Soyalshah Yunusshah and has identified it as "tutari".
The ECI has allotted "a man blowing turha" (a traditional trumpet) as the poll symbol for the NCP (SP).
The complaint filed by Laxmikant Khabiya, the poll representative of the party's candidate, Supriya Sule, stated that there is a similarity in both names, which can cause confusion among voters.
Khabiya submitted the complaint to the returning officer on April 20.
"The symbol given to the independent candidate is a trumpet. In Marathi, it cannot be called 'tutari'. We have requested the ECI to call the symbol 'trumpet' instead of 'tutari'," he stated in the complaint.
The "turha" in the NCP (SP) symbol is also called "tutari" in Marathi. It is sounded to mark the entry of important persons, ranging from kings earlier to political leaders now.
Baramati will go to polls in the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls on May 7.
Baramati is the home turf of the Pawar family, and Sule, the daughter of Sharad Pawar, has represented the constituency thrice so far and is seeking a fourth term.
Sule is pitted against her sister-in-law and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra, the candidate of the NCP.
The NCP is part of the Mahayuti alliance comprising the Shiv Sena and BJP.
