Heavy downpour in Kodagu causes landslides, collapse of houses
Madikeri, July 09: The Punarvasu rain has been lashing out at in the district causing widespread damage to the houses and properties besides landslides and uprooting of trees in several places.
Though the intensity of the rain came down in Talakaveri and Bhagamandala in the district, the road connectivity between the two places is disconnected as the flood water is flowing on Ayyangeri road for the last three days. However, the traffic movement was resumed on Madikeri road as the water level receded on it.
The Talakaveri region has received more than 5 inch rainfall in one day. Compared to this, district centre Madikeri received more than 6 inch rainfall from Sunday. The storm-water drainages in the city are overflowing with rainwater and inflow into the Onkareshwara Temple pond is increased, the water is being released. A part of the house belonging to Rashmi Pradeep near AV School was collapsed on Sunday night. But no casualty was reported. The houses of Abubakkar and Nabisa of Tyagarajnagar were also damaged partially.
SDPI city unit president Khaleel, leaders Basheer, Ummar, Nasir, Mohammad and others visited the areas where houses were damaged and distributed plastic sheets to get protection from rains. Landslides were occurred near Madenadu village on Mangaluru road and mud covered on the road disturbing the vehicular movement for some time. But later, the mud was removed to let the vehicles. Traffic movement was also suspended for some time as trees fell on the road at Kadagadalu, Kagodu, Boikere and other places. As Napoklu, Srimangala, Balele and Ponnampete have been receiving heavy rains, Lakshmana Theertha river is overflowing above the normal level.
Heavy rains in Somawarapete
In the last 24 hours, the taluk has received heavy rains in urban and rural areas causing landslides and other damages to the properties. As the roadside hillock was collapsed, on the road leading to Gandhi Nagar from Alekatte in Choudlu gram panchayat limits, the road was covered with mud. Though locals demanded retention wall along the road, no action was taken against it. Hundreds of vehicles including school vans are plying on this road every day. People said that the zilla panchayat engineering division should be held responsible if anything happened.
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K'taka bypolls: 11.87 percent voter turnout in Bagalkot, 9.01 percent in Davanagere South till 9 am
Bengaluru (PTI): In the first two hours since voting began for bypolls to two Bagalkot and Davanagere South assembly constituencies, the voter turnout stood at 11.87 percent and 9.01 percent, respectively, on Thursday.
The voting for the bypolls in two constituencies necessitated by the deaths of senior Congress MLAs H Y Meti and Shamanur Shivashankarappa, began at 7 am, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer said.
While the Congress faces the challenge of retaining both seats, the BJP is aiming to wrest them and deliver a setback to the ruling party, which is currently witnessing an "internal power struggle" over leadership.
A total of over 2.59 lakh eligible voters are expected to cast their votes at around 319 polling stations in Bagalkot, where nine candidates are in the fray.
In Davanagere South, over 2.31 lakh eligible voters are expected to vote across 284 polling stations, with 25 candidates contesting.
Officials said elaborate security arrangements have been made for the smooth conduct of bypolls.
The BJP has fielded former MLA and 2023 defeated candidate Veerabhadrayya Charantimath from Bagalkot, and a fresh face, Srinivas T Dasakariyappa, from Davanagere South.
The Congress has given tickets to family members of the late legislators in both constituencies. Bagalkot candidate Umesh Meti is the son of H Y Meti, while Samarth Mallikarjun from Davanagere South is the grandson of Shamanur Shivashankarappa.
Samarth’s father, S S Mallikarjun, is a minister in the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet and in charge of Davanagere district, while his mother, Prabha Mallikarjun, is a Member of Parliament from the region.
In the 2023 Assembly elections, H Y Meti defeated BJP’s Charantimath by a margin of 5,878 votes in Bagalkot, while Shivashankarappa defeated BJP’s B G Ajay Kumar by 27,888 votes in Davanagere South.
