First female Jagadguru of Lingayat, Maate Mahadevi no more
Bengaluru: Kudalasangam Basava Dharma Peetha President Maate Mahadevi passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Thursday. She was 74.
She was undergoing treatment at the ICU unit in the Manipal hospital for the past seven days following respiratory issues. She stopped responding to the treatment and breathed her last at 4:45 pm today.
Maate Mahadevi was one of the prominent faces of movement for separate religion status for Lingayat Community. She had pledged that she would not stop the movement until the Lingayat Community gets the status of a separate religion.
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Pawan Khera denied anticipatory bail in passport case: Cong stands up for senior member
New Delhi: The Congress party has stood by Pawan Khera, the Chairman of the party’s Media and Publicity Department, expressing confidence that regardless of hurdles like politics of threat and intimidation, justice would emerge victorious.
Khera was denied anticipatory bail by the Gauhati High Court on Friday in the case filed against him by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma for alleging that she possessed not only multiple passports but also undisclosed properties abroad.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said in a post in Hindi on his ‘X’ account, “The entire Indian National Congress stands in solidarity with Pawan Khera, the Chairman of its Media and Publicity Department. The process to challenge the Gauhati High Court’s decision in the Supreme Court is underway.” In the post, which he put up on Friday, Ramesh has added, “We are confident that justice will prevail over the politics of threats, intimidation, and harassment.”
Bhuyan Sarma has lodged also an FIR seeking legal action against Pawan Khera for his allegations that she possesses passports of three countries and owns a company in the US, which had invested Rs. 50,000 crores. She has filed criminal cases against the Congress leader at the Guwahati Crime Branch Police Station under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
