Pall of gloom descends over villages of victims who died in Mandya bus accident
Mass cremation of eight persons at Vadesamudra
Mandya, November 25: A pall of gloom descended over the villages of the victims who died when a private bus they were travelling in plunged into VC canal at Kanaganamaradi village in Pandavapura taluk on Saturday. Total 30 persons died in the accident. Now, there was a grave silence in the houses of the victims.
The family members and relatives who lost their children, wives, husbands and grandparents were inconsolable. No one dared to console Rani, who lost her son Ravikumar who was studying 7th standard when she was mourning. After coming home after the mass cremation, she recalled her son and could not stop crying.
Chikke Gowda-Vasanth who lost her 15-year-old son Prashanth were seen weeping looking at the marks card and medals he won. “He was a bright student in the 7th standard. He has got ‘A’ grade and became first in the class. He has got various medals in competitions”, his parents remembered.
Mass cremation
The cremation of 30 victims who lost their lives in the bus accident was conducted in their respective villages on Sunday. As it was delayed to handover the bodies to the relatives as postmortem was conducted at the place where the accident occurred, the cremation was conducted on Sunday. But some persons were cremated on Saturday late night.
Pavithra (11), Kariyamma (65), Chikkaiah (40), Kamalamma (55), Prashanth (15), Rathnamma (60), Shashikala (45), Ravikumar (12) of Vadesamudra were cremated enmass in the village. Apart from them, GK Likhitha (5), Preksha (2), Manjula (60), Chandru (35), Papanna (66), Poojary Kempaiah (50), Yashodha (18), Divya, Jayamma (50), Soumya (5), Kalpana (11), Ningamma (70), Rathnamma (50), Eraiah (60), Savitramma (40), Preethi (15), Anusha (17), Sumathi (35), Soumya (30), Shivamma (50), Mani (35), ravikumar (15) were cremated in their respective villages.
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Integrity of electoral process severely compromised, Cong to soon launch movement: CWC
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress Working Committee met here on Friday and adopted a resolution alleging the integrity of the entire electoral process was being severely compromised against which the party would soon launch a movement.
In the resolution of the top body of the Congress, the party said free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that was being called into "serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission".
The CWC, which met amid the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, said the session has been a washout so far because of the Narendra Modi government's "stubborn refusal" to have an immediate discussion on three pressing national issues -- "the recent revelations regarding corruption by a business group, and the violence in Manipur and Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal".
Asked why the Congress Working Committee (CWC) resolution does not name the business group, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "The answer is the Adani group".
"The CWC believes the integrity of the entire electoral process is being severely compromised. Free and fair elections is a Constitutional mandate that is being called into serious question by the partisan functioning of the Election Commission.
"Increasing sections of society are becoming frustrated and deeply apprehensive. The Congress will take these up these public concerns as a national movement," the resolution stated.
Addressing a joint press conference along with Ramesh and Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, party general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal said the party discussed the political situation in the country for four-and-half hours and adopted the resolution.
He said the CWC has decided to constitute internal committees to look into electoral performance and organisational matters.
About the Assembly polls results in Maharashtra, Venugopal said the electoral outcome in the state was "beyond normal understanding and it appears to be a clear case of targeted manipulation".
