Congress slams BJP for politicizing COVID-19 pandemic in Dakshina Kannada District
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Congress party in a press conference on Thursday slammed the ruling BJP for allegedly politicizing the COVID-19 pandemic in the district.
Speaking at a press conference at the District Congress office here in the city, the Congress District President and MLC Harish Kumar claimed that the resources dispensed by Central and State government for the poor people were being misused by the BJP party workers and corporators in Dakshina Kannada District.
Alleging that the ruling BJP was politicizing the pandemic and using it for political gains, Harish Kumar said “The BJP is misusing people’s money and resources for their own political gains. The resources that are meant to be distributed to the poor people during the pandemic are being used to advertise the BJP. This is unethical as the resources come from people’s money, but the government is taking credit for it”.
“Similarly, the party also used the pictures of PM Modi on the ration distribution campaign, vaccination certificates, and RT-PCR reports” he added.
He further claimed that the elected Corporators of Congress party at the panchayath levels were also being ignored by the BJP and they were not being taken into confidence before making any decision.
“Our corporators are being sidelined. They are not being invited to the meetings where decisions are made. One of our corporators was first sanctioned 500 COVID-19 vaccination for his ward, it was then reduced to 300 and later the sanctioned vaccines were canceled adding ‘lack of resources”.
He questioned if the vaccines were sanctioned to the Congress corporator, why did the BJP administration have to cancel them. “Where did all those vaccines go?” he asked.
Harish Kumar was accompanied by other senior Congress leaders at the press conference.
Vartha Bharati News Bureau/ Taha Kausar
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
