Mangaluru, Oct 24: The veteran of tourist vehicles services industry in Mangalore, Mohammed Eshaque aged 66, popularly known as “BAMSON”demised on Wednesday in his residence “Bamson House” in Falnir.

Marhoom Mohammed Eshaque was the proprietor of MANGALORE TOURIST SERVICES (MTS) the business he inherited from his father marhoom B. Mohammed Hajee who had established business in 1960’s.

After his father’s demise in 1980 marhoom Eshque was operating the business successfully, winning the heart of his company’s clientele. MTS is the only tourist services company in undivided Dakshina kannada & Udupi district to be recognized by Govt. Of India and Karnataka state tourism development corporation.

His fleet of services has wide range of vehicles from saloon cars, station wagons, MPV’s, SUV’s, Mini buses etc. In 70’s & 80’s his fleet included vintage cars such as old British Morris minor and German cars Mercedes Benz and Peugeot for wedding and special events. His list of clientele includes individuals, corporate companies, semi-government organization like KIOCL and Government authorities etc.

Besides tourist vehicles business he had passion for automobile. In 70’s & 80’s he used to modify his personnel used vehicles to have imported vehicle look. He was automotive sports star winning many awards by participating in automotive sports rallies in Karnataka and other south Indian states. He initiated the first automotive sports club ‘Karavali Automotive sports club’ and its first ever car rally in Mangalore in 1986 that had live all India TV coverage.  He was motivator for many youth automotive sports participants and aspirants

The demise of Marhoom Eshaque is a huge loss for automobile tourist industry & his clients, automotive sports club members & sport aspirants in Dakshina Kannada & Udupi district. He was suffering from illness from sometime. He survived by wife Aysha; only daughter Ashmitha, son – in law Mohammed Anees and grandson master Ayan.

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New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat saying that his remark that India got "true independence" after the Ram temple consecration amounts to treason and is an insult to every Indian.

Speaking at the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters here, Gandhi said every party worker is fighting this battle of ideologies under difficult circumstances where institutions have been captured by the BJP and the RSS and investigative agencies are being used against opposition leaders.

The leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha also hit out at the Election Commission and alleged that there is a "serious problem" with the country's election system.

"Mohan Bhagwat has the audacity to say to the country what he thinks about the independence movement and the Constitution. What he said yesterday is treason... Because he is stating that the Constitution is invalid and the fight against the British was invalid.

"He has the audacity to say this publicly. In any other country, he would be arrested and tried. That is a fact," Gandhi said at the inauguration of the Indira Gandhi Bhawan.

"To say that India did not get independence in 1947 is an insult to every Indian. And it is time to stop listening to this nonsense that these people think they can keep parroting out and shouting," he said.

The former Congress president said the party has worked with the Indian people and it has built the success of this country on the foundations of the Constitution and that is what this building symbolises.

"It is important that we take ideas from this building and spread these ideas in the rest of the country," he said.

Gandhi said "we are fighting a civilisational war with these people, they are attacking every day the ideas that we believe in" and asserted that only the Congress can fight them.

Hitting out at the Election Commission, he said, the EC has refused to give us information about the increase in the number of voters in Maharashtra from Lok Sabha elections to assembly elections.

"What purpose does it serve? Why will it damage the EC? Why are they not giving us the list?

"It is the duty of the EC to ensure transparency in elections. If there is an increase of one crore in (the number of) voters in Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha in Maharashtra, it is the duty and sacred responsibility of the EC to show us exactly why this has happened. There is a serious problem with our election system," Gandhi said.