Bagalkot: A complaint has been filed against local BJP leaders for allegedly damaging the farm bund while constructing a makeshift helipad for the landing of BJP national president Amit Shah’s helicopter.

A farmer from Ilkal Jagadish Karadi has filed the complaint with Ilkal police on Sunday.

In the complaint, Karadi has stated that the BJP leaders have not taken permission to construct the makeshift helipad at his farm on Uchanuru Road. When asked, they abused me and threatened me with dire consequences.

Amit Shah was in Ilkal on Saturday to address a public rally.  

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ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.

“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.

The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.

Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.