Sanjeeva Suvarna is a cultural harbinger of coastal area: Usha Datar
Felicitation to Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna, award presentation
Udupi, July 15: Noted dancer Kalamandalam Usha Datar said that Yakshagana Guru Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna who studied Yakshagana and gave shows in more than 52 countries, was a cultural harbinger of coastal region.
Presiding over the felicitation to Yakshagana guru Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna and award presentation programme organized by the Yakshagana Kalaranga and Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna Felicitation Committee at Ajjarakadu Town Hall here on Sunday, she said that Bannanje had imbibed the art form. The practices, culture and tradition of the land he had preserved should be passed on to the next generation. Young generation should take up this responsibility, she said.
Folk artiste Guruva Koraga Hiriyadka inaugurated the programme by beating the drum on the occasion. Bannanje Sanjeeva Suvarna performed Yakshagana steps. Felicitation Committee chairman Dr. Bhaskarananda welcomed, while Narayana Hegde compared the programme.
Later, Sanjeeva Suvarna demonstrated Yakshagana with the teachers of the art and students. Senior artistes Hiriyadka Gopal Rao and Margoli Govinda Siregar were felicitated. Cultural thinker Lakshmisha Tholpady, mimetic expert MA Hegde, theatre director Chidambar Rao Jambe, Maharashtra Dashavatara expert Vijay Kumar Paterpakar, art critic Sadananda Menon, Vardesh Hiregange, Bhootaradhane artiste Shiroor Koraga Panara, V Jayarajan of Kerala art forms, writer Madhava Chippali and others were present on the occasion.
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CM Siddaramaiah appears before Lokayukta police for questioning in MUDA case
Mysuru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appeared before the Lokayukta police here on Wednesday in response to the summons issued to him for questioning in the MUDA site allotment case.
The CM, who has been named as accused number 1 in the FIR registered by the Lokayukta police, is facing allegations of illegalities in the allotment of 14 sites to his wife Parvathi B M by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
They had on October 25 questioned his wife, who has been named as accused number 2.
Siddaramaiah, his wife, brother-in-law Mallikarjuna Swamy and Devaraju -- from whom Swamy had purchased a land and gifted it to Parvathi -- and others have been named in the FIR registered by the Mysuru-located Lokayukta police establishment on September 27.
Swamy and Devaraju have already deposed before the Lokayukta police.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court had on Tuesday issued notice to Siddaramaiah and others on a writ petition filed by RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna, seeking a direction to transfer the case to CBI.
Justice M Nagaprasanna, who also issued notice to Parvathi, Swamy, Union of India, the State government, CBI, Lokayukta and others, directed the Lokayukta to place on record investigation conducted in the case so far.
The court posted the next hearing to November 26.
On October 24, the CM filed an appeal before the division bench of the High Court, challenging the decision of a single judge bench in connection with the MUDA site allotment case that had come as a setback to him.
The bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna had on September 24 dismissed the CM's petition challenging Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot's approval for a probe against him in the case, observing that the gubernatorial order nowhere "suffers from want of application of mind".
Siddaramaiah had challenged the legality of Gehlot's sanction for the investigation against him in the alleged irregularities in the allotment of 14 sites by MUDA in a prime locality.
Following the High Court order, a Special Court here on the very next day had ordered a Lokayukta police probe against Siddaramaiah, and directed to file the investigation report by December 24.
Parvathi, meanwhile, had written to MUDA to cancel 14 sites allotted to her and the MUDA had accepted it.
On September 30, the ED filed an enforcement case information report (ECIR) to book the CM and others taking cognisance of the Lokayukta FIR, and is also probing the case.
In the MUDA site allotment case, it is alleged that 14 compensatory sites were allotted to Siddaramaiah's wife in an upmarket area in Mysuru (Vijayanagar Layout 3rd and 4th stages), which had higher property value as compared to the location of her land which had been "acquired" by MUDA.
The MUDA had allotted plots to Parvathi under a 50:50 ratio scheme in lieu of 3.16 acres of her land, where it developed a residential layout.
Under the controversial scheme, MUDA allotted 50 per cent of developed land to the land losers in lieu of undeveloped land acquired from them for forming residential layouts.
It is alleged Parvathi had no legal title over this 3.16 acres of land at survey number 464 of Kasare village on the outskirts of Mysuru.
