KSRTC starts mini bus service between Madikeri and Sullia
Mangaluru, August 23: The Mangaluru KSRTC has started mini bus service between Madikeri and Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district in alternative route from today.
Due to landslides on national highway 275 between Madikeri and Sampaje, the mini buses would ply via Panattur-Karike and Bhagamandala. The KSRTC mini bus service would be available from Puttur depot, corporation sources said.
This mini bus service would help hundreds of employees and students between these two towns. The mini buses would also run into Kerala for 12 km. Three buses started plying between these places from Thursday and another two buses would start from Friday. Every day, 14 single trips would be done from five mini buses, sources said.
Bus time table
Madikeri to Sullia: 7.15 am, 8 am, 9 am, 11.15 am, 12 noon, 4 pm, 4.30 pm
Sullia to Madikeri: 7 am, 7.45 am, 11.45 am, 12.15 pm, 1.15 pm, 3.30 pm, 4.30 pm
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PM's silence on Kharge's insult by Himanta is his consent: Rahul
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the use of "derogatory language" against party chief Mallikarjun Kharge by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is an insult to the entire SC/ST community, and the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter "is not his helplessness, but his consent".
"If the prime minister sees an attack on the dignity of crores of Dalits in the country and does not speak up - he is not only shirking his responsibility, but is also a party to that insult," Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
Gandhi said the use of "vulgar and derogatory language" by Sarma against Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Kharge "is entirely condemnable, shameful, and unacceptable".
"Kharge ji is a senior and popular Dalit leader of the country - his experience, stature, and prestige are unparalleled. Insulting him is not an insult to one individual alone, but also to crores of people from the SC-ST community in this country," he posted.
This, he said, just reflected the "old and premeditated mindset" of the BJP-RSS and was nothing new, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said.
"Whether it is the insult to Babasaheb Ambedkar, belittling Dalit leaders, or personal attacks on representatives of the SC-ST community - the history of BJP and RSS bears witness that whenever a Dalit leader speaks the truth, they stoop to humiliate him," he posted.
"This is their ideology, this is their true character and face," he added.
Posing a direct question to the PM, he asked, "do you support Himanta Sarma's use of this language? Your silence is not helplessness, it is consent."
Sarma earlier hit out at Kharge, claiming that he was "speaking like a madman" due to old age, after the latter put the onus on central agencies to probe the charges made against the Assam chief minister.
Slamming the Congress chief, Sarma said, "Kharge is ageing and is speaking like a pagal (madman)."
