Kanakapura: JDS dalit leader hacked to death
Kanakapura, November 12: A JDS SC/ST unit state leader was hacked to death by a team of three miscreants in Kanakapura town police station limits here on Monday evening.
The victim has been identified as RT Raja Gopal (42) of P Ramapura in Kasaba hobli. He was serving as the JDS SC/ST unit general secretary.
When he was having tea along with his friends at a hotel in the old police station limits, he received a phone call and went out of the hotel speaking over the phone. While standing beside Janani Clinic speaking over the mobile, a gang of three persons attacked him with lethal weapons and fled the scene. Raja Gopal who sustained injuries on face and neck, died on the spot, police said.
Police shifted the body to the government hospital. DySP and Circle inspector visited the spot. Raja Gopal who was identified with the BSP earlier, joined the JDS two years ago. He is survived by his father, mother, wife and brothers.
The JDS workers and dalit leaders who rushed to the hospital, condemned the murder and staged a protest demanding immediate arrest of the accused. As a result, tension prevailed for some time. Police beefed up the security in the town.
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Siddaramaiah and I have come to understanding, we will abide by it: Shivakumar
Karwar (Karnataka) (PTI): Not willing to make any direct statement on whether there will be a chief minister change in the state, Karnataka Deputy CM D K Shivakumar on Friday said that he and CM Siddaramaiah have come to an agreement with the involvement of the Congress high command, and both of them will abide by it.
Stating that Siddaramaiah is CM as per the high command's decision, he clarified that he has never made any comments on the former's tenure.
Siddaramaiah, earlier in the day, had affirmed that he would remain in office for his full five-year term, expressing confidence in the Congress high command's support.
During a discussion in the Assembly on the issues pertaining to North Karnataka's development, Siddaramaiah also said he never mentioned that he was the chief minister for only two-and-a-half years.
"I had never said, he (Siddaramaiah) will not be there (as CM) for five years. I have never said that the high command is not with him. As the high command is with him, he is chief minister today," Shivakumar told reporters here.
Noting that Siddaramaiah is in the post of CM as per the decision of the party, he said, "Both of us have come to an agreement, the high command has got us to an understanding, as per that both of us have discussed and have said several times that we will abide by it and go ahead."
Shivakumar, however, chose not to answer a question, whether there will be a change in the chief minister post or not.
To a question on talks about CM change, he said, "It is you (media) who is talking about it, there is no discussion among us. We will abide by what the party says."
The Deputy CM was on a visit to various temples in the Uttara Kannada district on Friday.
To a question linking his visit to the goddess Jagadeeshwari temple in Uttara Kannada district's Ankola, to his chief ministerial ambitions, Shivakumar said, "I don't want to talk about it, it is between me and the mother goddess. It is between the devotee and the deity. What I have prayed to the goddess and what she told me is between us."
He said, five years ago he had come to the temple regarding some issue concerning his family and his wish was fulfilled. "So I'm visiting the temple as a mark of gratitude and to seek blessings for me, the state and the people who believe in me. I'm going back happily."
