JD(S) Sindagi candidate Shivananda Patil Somajala dies of heart attack
Sindgi: Shivananda Patil Somajala, the JD(S) candidate for the upcoming Assembly election, died of heart attack on Friday night. He was 55.
He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
Somajala participated in the party convention in Vijayapura town on Friday and returned to Sindgi in the afternoon. He is learned to have visited his friends late in the day. At around 9 pm, when he was speaking to the friends, he suddenly collapsed. Somajala was rushed to the hospital, but is said to have died on the way.
JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has expressed shock at the unexpected death of the party senior member.
“Somajala participated in the Pancharatna Rathayatra through Sindgi constituency on Wednesday and bid me farewell when we reached the Devara Hippargi constituency the next day, before returning to be a part of the rally in Nagathana constituency yesterday afternoon,” Kumaraswamy posted on Twitter.
The JD(S) leader added that, having retired from the Army after completing a career with selfless service, Somajala developed a strong desire to involve in social service. As he had excellent capacity as an activist and a manager, he grew close to Kumaraswamy in a short period.
“I am greatly disturbed by the loss of Somajala. I pray for his soul to rest in peace and for the Almighty to give strength to his family members to overcome the grief,” the former chief minister tweeted.
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BJP has history of ‘contradictory alliances’, says BK Hariprasad
Bengaluru: Congress MLC B. K. Hariprasad has launched a sharp attack on the BJP, accusing the party of hypocrisy over its criticism of alliance politics in Tamil Nadu.
In a post on X on Friday, Hariprasad said BJP leader B. L. Santhosh criticising the Congress party’s alliance politics in Tamil Nadu was “not just laughable, but the height of political contradiction.”
He said the Congress has always joined hands with like-minded parties to protect secular and democratic values in the country.
Hariprasad questioned the BJP over several of its past and present alliances across the country. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Tripura, Bihar and Maharashtra, he accused the BJP of sharing power with parties it had earlier criticised.
He alleged that the BJP had aligned with separatist and corruption-linked political forces in different states for political gains.
“The BJP, which speaks against alliances today, should first look at its own political history,” he said, adding that the party’s record was full of “contradictions and changing stands.”
Hariprasad also accused the BJP of using central agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and CBI as political tools to target opposition leaders, topple governments and influence electoral mandates.
He further claimed that the people of Tamil Nadu had strongly rejected the BJP and its ideology in the recent election.
“Congress forms alliances to protect the Constitution, secularism and national unity, while the BJP enters into alliances only for power,” he said.
