Go Back Campaign: Being insulted individual’s interest for ticket; Shobha Karandlaje
Udupi, Feb 24: 'Ticket aspirants have been instigating people against me for a reason that I have no financial support, caste support, muscle, and are insulting me. But I am bothered about it", said Udupi-Chikmagalur BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje.
Responding to the reporters here on Sunday, she expressed her anger against those who have been calling for Go Back Movement against her. “They have been instigating a small group of youth to insult me to contest the elections and get the ticket for themselves,” she said.
"I have duly abided my responsibilities entrusted by the state and central leaders. What is their contribution to the party? I have worked for the party for more than 25 years. Let them tell me about their contribution to the party and later ask ticket", she added.
"Being the Lok Sabha Member, I have done my work. It is the responsibility of the senior leaders of the party to give me a ticket. The party would give ticket considering the service and contribution to the party. Go Back Movement would damage the party instead of yielding any individual benefit for anyone", she further added.
"I have brought a number of schemes to the district from the Centre. I have done more development works than any other MP has done earlier here. I am satisfied and sure about what I have done. A lot of things are to be done here, which I will initiate later in near future. If the party ask me to contest in the next election, I would contest. I am committed to carry out the responsibility being given by the party", she said.
What did MP men do?
"I would challenge the men who were the Lok Sabha members for all these years. What did they do? Why they had failed to do the complete work that I have done? I have brought passport office, Kendriya Vidyalaya, upgraded all roads into national highways. Previous MPs have not done it. So I had to get a lot of work done, and I duly did it.”. Shobha said.
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Virat Kohli returns to Vijay Hazare Trophy: King’s tryst with silence and chaos
Bengaluru (PTI): Virat Kohli’s 58th List A hundred resembled a grand opera played inside an empty Royal Albert Hall.
Kohli’s 83-ball knock for Delhi against Andhra in the Vijay Hazare Trophy was magnificent as usual in its execution, but there were no screaming spectators to garnish the occasion here at the BCCI Centre of Excellence.
The Karnataka government’s reticence to grant permission to host matches at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium citing security reasons forced the KSCA to shift matches to CoE, and the venue was out of bounds for fans.
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So, instead of a roaring house, a tranche of snail-paced cargo trucks, a large posse of police personnel and few fans gawking over the barbed concrete walls provided an austere setting for Kohli’s return to Vijay Hazare Trophy after 15 years.
Kohli himself might have found it a tad bizarre. For a better part of the last decade and half, the 37-year-old has always walked onto a cricket field to an uproarious welcome.
Even his return to Ranji Trophy earlier this year after a hiatus of 12 years at Ferozeshah Kotla had drawn huge crowds.
But on a sunny Wednesday, Kohli made a rather unfamiliar, lonely walk to the middle — no cheers, no chants of "Kohli... Kohli!" and not even that ubiquitous RCB cries that reverberate around stadiums irrespective of the formats he plays.
The thick veil of silence was breached only when the fielding side players chatted among themselves or when occasional applause emanated from the respective dressing rooms.
But the entire sight had its own charm. A champion cricketer who has always been flanked on either side by fame and fans, was now doing it all alone.
There were short chats and high-fives with teammates, a diving stop to deny Ricky Bhui another boundary, and a quick word of advice to Delhi pacer Navdeep Saini when Andhra batters carted him around.
Kohli even jived to some imaginary tune. Perhaps, an effort to recreate an air of exuberance and theatre around him, something he loves to do so dearly on a cricket field.
He was trying to flame the dramatist inside him, which often drove him to some dizzying peaks.
Kohli the master batter
But that situational solitude did not affect his batting. Barring a couple of drops, Kohli slipped into his familiar ‘Chase Master’ garb with ease.
His money shots were on full view on Wednesday — pulls, charge to spinners, flicks, cuts and those beautiful perpendicular bat straight drives.
Fifty came in 39 balls and 100 in 83 balls, but none of those moments were celebrated with usual gusto. But a simple wave to the dressing room marked the occasion.
In fact, silence shrouded those moments so deep that a blink could have made one miss them.
But there was another side to it. Perhaps, Kohli too might have enjoyed that slice of loneliness which he often craves for.
That search for privacy has made him set an alternate base in London apart from his uber posh Mumbai dwelling. Here, he had all the desired isolation.
But the day ended in familiar chaos. Andhra cricketers and officials mobbed him for photographs and autographs, and he obliged with a smile.
“It was a dream to play in the same match as Kohli. I always wanted to play with or in the opposition (of Kohli), and the all the Andhra cricketers were elated at the opportunity,” said fellow centurion Ricky Bhui after the match.
As boxing legend Frank Bruno once said: ‘Boy! That’s cricket.”
