Go Back Campaign: Being insulted individual’s interest for ticket; Shobha Karandlaje
Udupi, Feb 24: 'Ticket aspirants have been instigating people against me for a reason that I have no financial support, caste support, muscle, and are insulting me. But I am bothered about it", said Udupi-Chikmagalur BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje.
Responding to the reporters here on Sunday, she expressed her anger against those who have been calling for Go Back Movement against her. “They have been instigating a small group of youth to insult me to contest the elections and get the ticket for themselves,” she said.
"I have duly abided my responsibilities entrusted by the state and central leaders. What is their contribution to the party? I have worked for the party for more than 25 years. Let them tell me about their contribution to the party and later ask ticket", she added.
"Being the Lok Sabha Member, I have done my work. It is the responsibility of the senior leaders of the party to give me a ticket. The party would give ticket considering the service and contribution to the party. Go Back Movement would damage the party instead of yielding any individual benefit for anyone", she further added.
"I have brought a number of schemes to the district from the Centre. I have done more development works than any other MP has done earlier here. I am satisfied and sure about what I have done. A lot of things are to be done here, which I will initiate later in near future. If the party ask me to contest in the next election, I would contest. I am committed to carry out the responsibility being given by the party", she said.
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"I would challenge the men who were the Lok Sabha members for all these years. What did they do? Why they had failed to do the complete work that I have done? I have brought passport office, Kendriya Vidyalaya, upgraded all roads into national highways. Previous MPs have not done it. So I had to get a lot of work done, and I duly did it.”. Shobha said.
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Israel launches first airstrike on Lebanon since ceasefire, accusing Hezbollah of breaching truce
Beirut, Nov 28: The Israeli military on Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold.
There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's aerial attack, which came hours after the Israeli military said it fired on people trying to return to certain areas in southern Lebanon. Israel said they were violating the ceasefire agreement, without providing details. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said two people were wounded.
The back-to-back incidents stirred unease about the agreement, brokered by the United States and France, which includes an initial two-month ceasefire in which Hezbollah members are to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. The buffer zone would be patrolled by Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers.
On Thursday, the second day of a ceasefire after more than a year of bloody conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's state news agency reported that Israeli fire targeted civilians in Markaba, close to the border, without providing further details. Israel said it fired artillery in three other locations near the border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
An Associated Press reporter in northern Israel near the border heard Israeli drones buzzing overhead and the sound of artillery strikes from the Lebanese side.
The Israeli military said in a statement that “several suspects were identified arriving with vehicles to a number of areas in southern Lebanon, breaching the conditions of the ceasefire.” It said troops “opened fire toward them” and would “actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement.”
Israeli officials have said forces will be withdrawn gradually as it ensures that the agreement is being enforced. Israel has warned people not to return to areas where troops are deployed, and says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah if it violates the terms of the truce.
A Lebanese military official said Lebanese troops would gradually deploy in the south as Israeli troops withdraw. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The ceasefire agreement announced late Tuesday ended 14 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that began a day after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza, when the Lebanese Hezbollah group began firing rockets, drones and missiles in solidarity.
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September. The war in Gaza is still raging with no end in sight.
More than 3,760 people were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel — over half of them civilians — as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
Some 1.2 million people were displaced in Lebanon, and thousands began streaming back to their homes on Wednesday despite warnings from the Lebanese military and the Israeli army to stay out of certain areas. Some 50,000 people were displaced on the Israeli side, but few have returned and the communities near the northern border are still largely deserted.
In Menara, an Israeli community on the border with views into Lebanon, around three quarters of homes are damaged, some with collapsed roofs and burnt-out interiors. A few residents could be seen gathering their belongings on Thursday before leaving again.
