I don’t want Modi’s praise or abuse: Deve Gowda
Bengaluru: Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi showering praises on him on Tuesday as a “magnanimous gesture”, national president of Janata Dal (Secular) H.D. Deve Gowda sought to underplay it saying: “I don’t want his praise or abuse.”
Speaking to media persons, he said Mr. Modi is an intelligent person and knows how to raise issues that suit the situation. He is a good orator and knows when to speak and on what. “Hence, there is no need to read into the praises that he showered on me,” he said at a media interaction organised by Press Club of Bangalore and Bangalore Reporters’ Guild.
At an interaction programme organized by Press Club of Bangalore and Bangalore Reporters’ Guild, Gowda said: “Modi did not refer to either the Mahadayi issue or the agrarian crisis plaguing Karnataka in the rally held in Belagavi.”
Comparing Mr. Modi with BJP’s tall leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the JD(S) supremo said: “Mr. Vajpayee is totally different from Mr. Modi. Gaurakshaks and RSS are active during Modi’s tenure.”
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
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.
