Bantwal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wherever he goes expresses ‘Mani Ki Baat’. But for us, words of Karnataka people are “Man Ki Baat”, said Congress President Rahul Gandhi.

Gandhi was addressing a public gathering and Congress workers at a campaigning programme for upcoming Assembly elections on Friday at Golden Maida in BC Road of Bantwal taluk.

“We do not break promises. We have fulfilled the promises that we had made earlier. In coming days also we will act the same way. Mr. Modi speaks about Basavanna’s principals but supports corrupts from backside. First Mr. Modi must read and understand the teachings of Basavanna,” Gandhi said.

Speaking at the occasion, CM Siddaramaiah said “corrupts are united to loot Karnataka. But Congress will once again come to power by rejecting the communal BJP.

this context, Congress leaders Veerappa Moily, KC Venugopal, BK Hariprasad, Vishnunathan, Harish Kumar, B Janardhan Poojary , Chandraprakash Shetty, UKMunu, Dhananjaya Adampangaya, Ibrahim Kodijal, Janardhana Chandimithar, Mrs. Mamata Gatti, Manjula Maave, Hemanatha Shetty, Diranaj Auriga, Baby Kunder, Madhava Mave, Sudarshan Jain, Usman Karopadi, Maiilappa Salian, Mrs. Bachchan, BK Khader, Ramakrishna Alva, Mohammed Nandanbettu, MS Muhammed, Padmashekhar Jain, Abbas Ali, Sanjeeva Poojary, Padmanabha Rai, Lukman, Mallika Shetty, Jayanthi Poojary Lavita Ramesh, Jagadish Koyla, Sadashiva Bangera, Shaheed Vedi and other were present.

Congress candidate B Ramanath Rai, Shakuntala Shetty, UT Khader, Raghu Sulya, JR Lobo and Moideen Bava were present on a special stage. Balakrishna Alva compered the program.

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Bengaluru (PTI): The South Western Railway on Saturday announced a series of special trains, in coordination with Central, South Eastern and Southern Railways, to clear stranded passengers following large-scale IndiGo flight cancellations across the country.

The special services will operate between December 6 and 10 on high-demand routes, including Bengaluru–Chennai, Bengaluru–Pune, Yesvantpur–Hazrat Nizamuddin, Shalimar–Yelahanka and Ernakulam–Yelahanka, officials said.

According to an official statement, SWR will run Train No. 06255/06256 between Chennai Egmore and KSR Bengaluru, 06257/06258 between Bengaluru and MGR Chennai Central, 06259/06260 between Yesvantpur and Hazrat Nizamuddin, and 06263/06264 between Bengaluru and Pune.

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Central Railway will operate Train No. 01413/01414 between Pune and Bengaluru, while South Eastern Railway will run Train No. 08073/08074 between Shalimar and Yelahanka. Southern Railway will operate Train No. 06147/06148 between Ernakulam and Yelahanka, the statement said.

Railways has advised passengers to check updated timings on its official channels and arrive early at stations.

For at least five days in a row, IndiGo flight operations have been significantly disrupted, with a large number of cancellations and delays causing hardships to thousands of passengers. In many cases, baggage has been misplaced.