Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah to visit Dakshina Kannada on August 31
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Congress President Harish Kumar on Monday informed that former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah will visit the District on August 31 to meet flood victims and to take stock of flood relief and rehabilitation work in the District.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday at the District Congress Office in the city Harish Kumar added that the former CM will arrive in the city at 10.am on August 31 and will head towards Pacchanadi Mandara village and meet people there. He will later visit Belthangady Taluk and will take stock of things.
Former Minister B Ramanath Rai who also addressed the press conference added that the people of the state did not receive aide and assistance from both state and centre as much as they would’ve wanted. He also recalled how UPA Government in the centre led by PM Manmohan Singh had come to the rescue of flood victims immediately when the state was hit by heavy rain and floods.
Rai further added that according to the reports the Centre’s team which has arrived in the state to study the situation in the state in the wake of recent floods was not visiting Dakshina Kannada, and called it a failure of Dakshina Kannada MP and state government.
Moideen Bava, Ibrahim Kondijal, Mithun Rai, Shashidhar Rai, Naveen D’Souza, Santhosh Shetty, Vishwas Kumar Das, Baby Kundar, Khalid Ujire and others were present during the press conference.
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
