Khader to get ministerial berth
Bengaluru, June 5: Amidst curiosity on sharing of portfolios in view of the cabinet expansion, it is said that Mangaluru MLA UT Khader would get the berth in the JDS-Congress coalition government.
After the formation of the government, cabinet expansion has created lot of curiosity. Meanwhile, media reports said that majority of the senior leaders who were the ministers in the erstwhile Congress government would not get chance this time. It was also said that getting a ministerial berth in the coalition government is not an easy task for Khader.
But in recent developments, the Congress sources are confirming that Khader would get the portfolio this time as he is the only MLA elected on Congress ticket in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu districts.
When he was the Health and Food and Civil Supplies Minister, he had introduced various programmes to benefit the people. Considering all these aspects, the Congress high command has decided to give him the minister post, sources said.
Though it was not yet confirmed about the portfolio, it is certain that he would get an important portfolio, the sources said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
