New DK DC Sindhu Roopesh visit Pachanady, Mandara dumping yard
Mangaluru: New Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada District Sindhu Roopesh on Wednesday visited the Pachanady dumping yard and took stock of the conditions at Mandara and Pachanady residential areas where the dump has slumped in making the lives of residents miserable for more than a month now.
Sindhu first reached Pachanady and then visited Mandara village. She then also visited the interim housing society provided to the victims at Kulashekar Housing Board and met the families who have lost their homes due to the garbage slump.
Speaking about the issue Sindhu urged the officials to work in both directions, one of clearing the slumped garbage from the area and the other being rehabilitating the victim families. He also asked the officials to prepare a detailed report which should be presented before the state government.
She was accompanied by Mangalore Municipal Corporation Commissioner Mohammed Nazeer, Joint Commissioner Gayatri Nayak and other officials and activists during her visit.
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Ex-minister Ramanath Rai hits out at BJP leader Ashoka for ‘irresponsible’ comments on KC Venugopal
Mangaluru: Congress leader and former minister B Ramanath Rai slammed BJP leader R Ashoka for calling AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal an agent of the party high command, and asked if the general secretary and other office-bearers in the BJP were commission agents too.
Rai, who addressed a press meet at the Congress office in the city on Friday, expressed fury over the recent comments of the BJP leader that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was presenting himself in a shameless manner in public life. Ashoka, who is also Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, had said that the Congress government had ‘broken every previous record on corruption-related controversies’.
“Ashoka has spoken with sheer ignorance and displays his lack of maturity, as he often does while facing the media. KC Venugopal has been working at organization of the party and it is unbecoming of Ashoka to criticize Venugopal as he did,” Rai told reporters.
“Being in a responsible position, how acceptable is it for Ashoka to pass disrespectful, random comments about another leader who also holds a responsible position? If KC Venugopal is indeed an agent of the party high command, what should we consider BJP leaders to be? Are they brokers?” he asked
Commenting on Ashoka’s allegations of corruption in the Congress government in Karnataka, Rai pointed out, “The KSRTC land was sold to private parties when he (Ashoka) was transport minister. We can find several such cases across the state, which need to be probed.”
The former minister, however, refused to comment on the incident that occurred at Mangaluru airport during CM Siddaramaiah’s visit to the city recently.
Former mayors Ashraf and Shashidhar Hegde, Congress activists Vishwas Kumar Das, Subhodaya Alva, Shabeer, Baby Kundar, Padmanabha, Nazeer Bajal and Prem were present.
