No need to celebrate Tipu Jayanti secretly: Harish Kumar
Tipu Jayanti celebrated amidst police security
Mangaluru, November 10: "It is common to have favour and opposition to any Jayanthi's. So there is no need to celebrate them secretly. The district administration should arrange the programme in public places to help the people", said MLC Harish Kumar.
Inaugurating the Tipu Jayanti programme organised by the district administration, at zilla Panchayat auditorium here on Saturday, he said that Tipu Sultan was a brave soldier, freedom fighter. In order to educate the people, former chief minister Siddaramaiah had announced the Tipu Jayanti. But some people have been opposing it which is natural. There should not be hide and seek game in celebrating the Jayanti. It should be open to all, he said.
MLC Ivan D'SOUZA presided over the programme, in which Mangaluru university College principal Dr MA Uday Kumar gave Tipu Jayanti message.
Mayor Bhaskar K, Mangaluru taluk Panchayat president Muhammad Monu, IGP Arun Chakravarthy, police commissioner TR Suresh, SP Dr BR Ravikanthe Gowda, DC Sasikanth Senthil, ZP CEO Dr Selvamani R, ADC Kumar, ZP standing committee president UP Ibrahim were present. Police security was beefed up around the zilla Panchayat auditorium where the programme was conducted.
Since District Minister UT Khader is in foreign tour, he was absent from the programme and read out his message.
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Yadgir: Six people burnt alive in private bus-car collision on Bidar-Bengaluru Highway in Surapura
Surapura: In a tragic road accident reported from the taluk, six people were burnt alive in a collision between a private bus and a car on the Bidar-Bengaluru Highway near the Shanthapura Cross close to the Thinthani Bridge on Friday morning.
A fire broke out due to the force of the collision, and both vehicles were gutted in the flames.
The bus is learned to have been traveling from Lingasugur to Kalaburagi, and the car was going towards Lingasugur. While none of the passengers in the bus was reportedly endangered in the accident, all six people traveling the car died in the accident and are learned to have burnt in the fire.
The local fire brigade has successfully doused the flames.
Inspector Umesh M and team of the Surapura Police Station is learned to have arrived at the accident spot and conducted an inspection.
The skulls of four people are said to have been found among the debris.
