BK Hariprasad Congress candidate from Bengaluru South constituency
PM Narendra Modi to enter the fray from BJP?
Bengaluru: The Congress has announced the name of Rajya Sabha member BK Hariprasad, 65, for the Bengaluru South Lok Sabha Constituency.
The Congress, which had released a list of 18 candidates on Saturday, announced the name for the Bengaluru South constituency today. However, suspense continues over BJP's choice for this constituency.
In the 1999 Lok Sabha polls, he had lost to BJP's Ananth Kumar. Hariprasad was later picked for the Rajya Sabha, where he is still a sitting member. However, Ananth Kumar who won from this constituency for six times since 1996, has passed away recently.
Earlier, It was said that Ananth Kumar's wife Tejaswini would be fielded from this constituency. But now rumour mills are abuzz with the news that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may contest from Bengaluru South.
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
