Congress accuses BJP leader Annamalai of getting bundle of notes with him to Kapu for campaign
Udupi: Vinay Kumar Sorake, former minister and Congress candidate from Kapu for the forthcoming Assembly elections, has alleged that Annamalai, who is joint in-charge of Karnataka for the BJP, carried a bundle of notes with him while arriving in Kapu by helicopter for campaigning on Monday.
The Udupi deputy commissioner has been informed of the matter, Sorake added.
Speaking during the release of the party manifesto at the Congress Bhavan in Udupi on Monday, he said, “The BJP won the 2018 election by spreading false information, but a lie does not work always. The voters of Udupi are well-informed about all matters. If secularism should survive in India, the Congress should be brought to power.”
The Congress candidate from Udupi Prasad Raj Kanchan filed his nomination papers on the occasion.
Kanchan said, “The upcoming elections are a major challenge for the Congress, which has contributed a lot for the progress of Udupi.”
Congress Udupi District President Ashok Kumar Kodavar, Udupi Block President Ramesh Kanchan, KPCC General Secretary MA Gafoor, Dinakar Herur, Annayya Sherigar, Geetha Wagle, Veronica Cornelio, Prakhyat Shetty and Nithyananda Shetty were among those present on the occasion.
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Elderly man dies after part of slab falls on him in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): A 75-year-old man died after some portion of a slab in a two-storey residential structure collapsed on him in Mumbai's Bhandup area on Saturday morning, officials said.
The incident occurred at Tulshipada in Patkar Compound of Bhandup West around 9.45 am, they said.
"The victim, identified as Susai Daevdas Kaunder, was injured when some part of the slab on the upper floor of a two-storey structure fell on him," a civic official said.
He was immediately taken to nearby Navkaar Hospital, where he was declared dead, the official said.
