B'luru South's Congress candidate B K Hariprasad visits Nirmalananda Swamy of Adichunchanagiri Math
Bengaluru: Bengaluru South Constituency’s Congress candidate B. K Hariprasad on Monday visited Nirmalananda Mahaswamy of Adichunchanagiri Mahasanthan in Vijayanagar here in Bengaluru.
He visited the Swami to take his blessings ahead of the Lok Sabha election beginning April 11 in the country.
The Dakshina Kannada Congress General Secretary and Rajya Sabha member Hariprasad was given the ticket by the party high command to contest from Bengaluru South against BJP, who is yet to announce a candidate from the constituency yet.
The constituency has favored the saffron party for last seven elections of which single candidate Ananth Kumar who passed away in November last year won six times.
Speculations were rife that the BJP would field Anant Kumar’s wife Tejaswi from the constituency but in the first list of candidates announced by the party had Tejaswi’s and the constituency’s name missing. The move further fuelled rumors about PM Modi’s interest in contesting from Bengaluru South to boost the morale of party cadre in the southern state.
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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.
