Mangaluru, May 10: When the question of giving political representation araises, the BJP would keep youth of backward classes who were being used for party’s religious politics and BJP senior leader Satyajit Surathkal is an example for this, said Mangaluru North Constituency CPM candidate Muneer Katipalla.

Addressing an election campaign at Kodikal here on Wednesday evening, he said that  the BJP would provoke backward classes youths to indulge in violence or religious politics. In the name of religion, they would either being jailed for their involvement in criminal activities or being killed. Satyajit’s example should be a lesson for the youth of backward classes who believe BJP blindly, he said.

The purpose of builders and businessmen who contest the election is not improving the condition of the people. Instead, they would worry about their interest, he said appealing the voters not to vote seeing the candidates’ personal rapport, community or money power. The people should analyse the contribution of the party, policies and eligibility of the candidate and vote, he said.



Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.



ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.

“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.

The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.

Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.