Four of family drown as car plunges into canal
Madikeri, August 06: Four persons of the same family drowned as the car in which they were travelling plunged into a canal near Mantikoppalu in Periyapatna taluk on Monday.
The deceased were identified as Palaniswamy (45), Sanju Kumari (34), Poornima (19) and Likhith (15). The accident occurred when the family was going to their land at Lakshmipura after visiting the post office at Doddakamaravalli in the taluk. The family had land in Lakshmipura village, but was residing at Napoklu in Kodagu district for the last ten years. Palaniswamy was working as a mason. As both Poornima and Likhith were physically disabled, they have gone to the post office to get the physically disabled pension and were going to their land in the car, it is said.
While driving the car near Mantikoppalu village, Palaniswamy lost control over the car and plunged into the Harangi right bank canal. Because of the current, the car was dragged for some meters in the canal and all the four died inside the car.
Fire brigade and police lifted the car from the canal and removed the bodies. Bettadapura police registered a case and bodies were handed over to the relatives after postmortem at Kushalnagar community health centre.
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Ramdas Athawale backs Fadnavis as Maharashtra CM; says Shinde can shift to Centre
New Delhi, Nov 26: RPI(A) leader Ramdas Athawale, a key BJP ally, on Tuesday called for a quick decision on the next chief minister of Maharashtra and suggested that incumbent Eknath Shinde should shift to the Centre as a Union minister.
Addressing a press conference here, Athawale also backed senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis as the next chief minister of Maharashtra, contending that the saffron party won the maximum number of seats in the 288-member Assembly and should have the right to the top executive post in the state.
He said a peculiar situation has arisen in Maharashtra where BJP leaders want Fadnavis as the chief minister, while Shiv Sena leaders want Shinde to continue in the post, citing the good work he has done over the last two and a half years.
Athawale, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, said NCP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has declared that he was not in the race for the chief minister.
"We need to resolve this matter, without any further delay. The election results were announced on November 23 and we should have had the oath of the new chief minister on November 26, the Constitution Day," Athawale said.
Backing Fadnavis for the post of chief minister, Athawale said Shinde can become the deputy chief minister or shift to the Centre and join the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Athawale said his RPI(A) has a presence in every part of the state, but unfortunately lost the two seats -- Dharavi and Kalina -- offered to it in the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections.
He demanded that an RPI member be made an MLC and a minister in the state government.
The BJP-led Mahayuti won a landslide victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections winning 235 seats in the 288-member House. The BJP won 132 seats, followed by Shinde-led Shiv Sena (57) and Ajit Pawar-led NCP (41). Smaller parties, who are part of the alliance, won five seats.
