Bengaluru, August 05: In view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, AICC president Rahul Gandhi will visit the state on August 13 and launch his election campaign for Lok Sabha elections from Karnataka, said KPCC working president Eshwara B Khandre.
Speaking to reporters at Bidar on Sunday, Khandre said that Rahul Gandhi would visit Bidar and participate in a programme to be held at Nehru Stadium on that day. He would be felicitated on the occasion. There is all likelihood that Lok Sabha elections might be held in December or January. Stage is set for ousting the corrupt NDA government led by the BJP from the centre. The Congress and JDS would have pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha election, he said.
It was expected that more than 2 lakh people would attend the programme where Rahul Gandhi would be felicitated. Minimum 20,000 workers would participate from each assembly constituency, he said.
Party state incharge KC Venugopal, Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, former chief minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar, Medical Education Minister DK Shivakumar, and all elected representatives and leaders of the party would participate in the convention, he said.
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Macherla (Andhra Pradesh) (PTI): A police inspector was suspended on Sunday over his alleged involvement in an alleged honour killing of a woman in a village under Macherla in Palnadu district, a senior police official said.
According to police, the woman, identified as Chowdeshwaramma, was in a relationship with Nagaraj, both belonging to the same community, and had eloped earlier.
"A police inspector was suspended following allegations of involvement in an honour killing case, including suspected monetary transactions with the victim's family," the official told PTI.
Police said the couple had approached the police station after eloping, where the woman's parents assured that they would conduct her marriage with Nagaraj, following which she returned home.
However, after a few days, when the family allegedly did not show interest in conducting the marriage, the woman expressed her intention to go back with the man again, he said.
Subsequently, she was found dead, with the family initially claiming that she died by hanging and filing a complaint accordingly.
The postmortem report later revealed that the woman was murdered by strangulation, contradicting the family's claim, police said.
Allegations later surfaced that the inspector had taken money from the woman's father and was involved in handing her back to the family earlier.
Based on these allegations and failure to take proper action in the case, the inspector was placed under suspension, said the official.
The woman's death is reported to have occurred on March 18, police said.
Meanwhile, police have registered a case under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and relevant sections may be altered during the course of investigation, he added.
