Mangaluru: Union Minister Ananth Kumar has no respect for the Constitution and the parliament. People will give the answer to his statements, said Home Minister MB Patil.

Patil, who has visited the City to to participate at a Dakshina Kannada district programme, was speaking to reporters at the Circuit House here on Monday morning.

"Ananth Kumar Hegde always gives these kind of statements. This is not a new. It's wrong for us to talk about him. He is making this statement in order to create communal riots. In the next election, people will teach a lesson to those who make such statements," Patil said.

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Bengaluru (PTI): The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has collected over Rs 19 lakh as a penalty from 10,069 passengers who were penalised for travelling without tickets and occupying seats exclusively reserved for ladies in the last three months, officials said on Thursday.

The checking staff of BMTC have intensified checking of buses operated in and around Bengaluru City to detect ticketless travelling by passengers, they said.

According to BMTC, during the months of August, September and October, the checking staff checked 57,219 trips and penalised 8,891 ticketless passengers by collecting Rs 17,96,030 as penalty and 5,268 cases were booked against conductors for their dereliction of duty.

During the same period, they have also penalised 1,178 male passengers for occupying seats exclusively reserved for lady passengers and imposed fines by collecting Rs 1,17,800 in accordance with the KMV (Karnataka Motor Vehicle) Rules of the MV Act of 1988.

"In total, during the months of August, September and October, 10,069 passengers were penalised and Rs 19,13,830 was collected," the BTMC officials stated.