Ashok who washed away in stream not traced even after 8 days
Chikmagaluru, July 18: Labourer Ashok who was washed away in a stream around 8 days ago was not yet traced. As there was no clue about the youth, NDRF team has called off its search operation. Now, the local divers have continued their searching for the body.
It is said that Ashok swept away along with his motorbike while riding the bike on the Bastihalla bridge at Kyogre in Koppa taluk in the district a week ago. Though the motorbike was traced in the stream, Ashok was not yet traced. Later, the district administration summoned NDRF team to search the body of Ashok. As the NDRF team did not get any clue about him, it has called off its search operation on Saturday.
But Kyogre villagers with the help of Balehole village divers have started the search operation once again from Sunday. The local people have collected donation to provide food, shelter and payment for the divers and they expressed anger against the district administration for its negligence.
MLA visits Ashok house
MLA TD Rajegowda visited the family members of Ashok and consoled them. He said that as he was in the Assembly Session, he could not visit the place. He also said that he would discuss with the deputy commissioner on summoning another team of divers from Mangaluru. He would also speak to the Chief Minister and get the compensation to the family. A proposal would also be submitted to the government to construct a new bridge, he said.
“Balehole diver Bhaskar has been trying to trace the body of Ashok. But the district administration has failed even to give food and minimum payment to the diver. Every day, the local people collect donations and provide food and honorarium”.
- Devaraj, Kyogre resident
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Sonia, Kharge, Rahul, Akhilesh join opposition leaders in protest against SIR
New Delhi (PTI): Several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, protested in the Parliament House complex on Monday against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar, and demanded its rollback.
Ahead of the day's proceedings in Parliament, top opposition MPs, including Sonia Gandhi, Kharge, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, TMC's Derek O'Brien and Sagarika Ghose, DMK's Kanimozhi and A Raja, besides others, raised slogans and protested against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar.
There was a huge banner in front of them which read 'SIR- Attack on Democracy' as they lined up on and near the steps of the Makar Dwar of Parliament and staged a protest for the fifth consecutive day.
With 'Stop SIR' placards in hand, several MPs of the opposition, including those of the Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, RJD and Left parties, participated in the protest and raised slogans.
The opposition has been protesting in both Houses of Parliament against the SIR, alleging the EC's exercise was aimed at "disenfranchising voters" in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections. They have been demanding a discussion on the issue in both Houses.
On Friday, several MPs of the INDIA bloc parties, including Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, had held an unusual protest in the Parliament House complex against the voter roll revision in Bihar by tearing posters with 'SIR' written on them and putting them in a 'disposal bin'.
They had also staged a protest march in the complex, demanding the rollback as well as a discussion on the issue in both Houses.
