BIJAPUR: Accusing the BJP government of shielding Former Minister and MLA, Ramesh Jarkiholi who has allegedly been found in an objectionable position with a woman, Former MLA, and District Congress Committee (DCC) president, Raju Algur has demanded the government to arrest him immediately as the case has already been filed against Jarkiholi.
Addressing presspersons on Monday, he wondered why the government is not taking stern action of arresting Jarkiholi when a case has been filed against him nearly a month ago.
Alleging Ramesh Jarkiholi of giving flip-flop and contradictory statements, he said that when the purported video went viral, he first denied that it was not him but some lookalike was in the video.
“Then later, his brother Balchandra Jarkiholi claims that it was a honey trap to malign the image of his brother. It means that Ramesh Jarkiholi is the man seen in the video”, he said.
Algur also casts aspersions on the six Ministers getting injunction order from the Court against the release of any video about them in the CD gate case.
“When the other six ministers have obtained stay order, it means that there is something fishy about the whole episode. If the Ministers have nothing to do with the case, then why did they obtain the injunction order from the Court”, he asked.
Expressing anguish over the supporters of Ramesh Jarkiholi attacking the car of KPCC president, D. K. Shivakumar, and throwing slippers on it, Algur accused the BJP leaders of deliberately dragging the name of Shivakumar in the case.
He alleged some people of pressurizing the parents of the woman seen in the video to accuse Shivakumar, while the woman herself has not made any allegations against Shivakumar.
Algur claimed that DKShi’s name was brought in the case to possibly tarnish his image.
Demanding the arrest of Ramesh Jarkiholi, he said that the government should also provide security to the woman and allow her to submit her statement before the magistrate.
“Let her say whatever she wants to without fear, then truth will prevail, meantime arrest Ramesh Jarkiholi”, he said.
Meanwhile, concerning the Sindgi by-election where some of the Congress leaders have expressed dismay over the selection of the candidate, Algur admitted that although some people may be unhappy, High Command will convince them.
Leaders, Abdul Hamid Mushrif, Vasat Honmode, Irfan Shaikh, Mohammed Rafiq Tapal, Chandsab Gadaglav, and others were present.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
