MP Pratap Simha gheraoed for entering booth despite not being voter
Mysuru, Sept 01: Expressing their ire against the Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha, who entered a polling station during the Mysuru Municipal Corporation polls despite not being a voter, the locals gheraoed him on Friday.
The incident took place at a polling booth at Srikanteswara School in KN Pura ward number 31 in Mysuru. MP Pratap Simha entered the booth with BJP candidate Padmanabha. But they were not voters there.
Local residents objected their entry into the booth and gheraoed Pratap Simha. Besides, they created ruckus saying that the non-voters should not enter the polling booths. When the MP tried to pacify them saying "I am a public representative and came here to check voting process," protesting people were not convinced.
Immediately the police arrived at the spot and ousted the non-voters. The incident took place when Pratap Simha visited Kyatamaranahalli ward and was heading towards another ward.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
