Dist admin to collect things for Kerala rehab centres
Udupi, August 17: The district administration in association with Rotary Club Manipal Hills, MIT Rotaract Club and Prasanna School of Public Health Mahe Manipal is collecting the necessary things like food grains, medicines and others to send them to the rehabilitation centres in Kerala. After collection, the collected things would be sent to Kerala through Indian Coast Guard flights next week.
Interested donors could donate their things at Disaster Management Centre at Rotary Hall in Mannapalla of Manipal and KMC office staff room near Tiger Circle at Manipal Bus Stand on August 18 to 20 from 9am to 7pm.
Details of things required
Bed sheets, sleeping mats, blankets, daily use dress materials, children clothes, under wears, school bags, note books, pencils, pens, food items like rusk, biscuits, 20 litre water cans, rice, sugar, salt, tea/coffee powder, lentils, packed provisions, ORS packs, electrolytes, chlorine tablets to purify water, dettols, mosquito creams, nets, antiseptic lotions, antifungal powder, bleaching powder, lime powders, baby diapers, adult diapers, sanitary napkins, tooth paste, tooth brushes, toilet soaps, bath soaps, detergents, candles, match boxes and others. Used things or material or cloths would not be accepted and no cash would be accepted.
Interested could call Prof Maddodi (9448229591), Umesh Salian 99844627000), Rudra (9546783129), Ida D’Souza (7760093803), Lena Ashok (9448984732) Shruthi (9400048735) and Ashish (8197639736).
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Maharashtra Congress chief Patole meets Kharge, dismisses resignation talk as 'rumours'
New Delhi, Nov 25: Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday dismissed as "rumours" talk of his resignation following the assembly polls debacle and stressed on "collective accountability" for the defeat.
Patole made the remarks after meeting Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge during which he conveyed that the result had not reflected the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra.
"Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other national and state leaders were leading Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) from the forefront during the assembly polls. So, we were sure that the trends were in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi, even the citizens believed that," the Maharashtra Congress chief said.
"If I talk about Nanded, the Lok Sabha bypolls and assembly elections were held on the same day. In Lok Sabha bypolls, our candidate was winning in six assembly seats, whereas, in the assembly elections, we are not winning even a single seat," he said, adding that there cannot be such a "huge difference".
This is the sentiment among the people also and they have stated that this government in Maharashtra was not being formed on their votes, he claimed.
"So, I spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge on this," he added.
Asked whether he had offered to resign or the party had asked for his resignation after the Maharashtra assembly polls defeat, Patole said, "These are all rumours and there is no truth in them. There is collective accountability."
Patole also said he will meet Rahul Gandhi in a day or two and discuss all issues.
"Democracy is being finished. We have discussed that... there was no talk of resignation," he said.
The MVA alliance, comprising the Congress, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Shiv Sena (UBT), was restrained to 46 seats by the Mahayuti that reaped a rich harvest of 230 seats in the 288-member House.
