Udupi: BJP MP and candidate from Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency, Shobha Karandlaje on Wednesday tweeted that the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka is imposing emergency.

Her tweet came in connection with the arrest of Mahesh Vikram Hegde, co-founder and editor of infamous fake news and propaganda website postcard news, who was arrested by CID- Cyber wing on Wednesday evening.

“The only crime of Mahesh Vikram Hegde is that, he has been exposing the lies of Gandhi family” she added in the tweet.

“Height of Vendetta politics, Coalition govt. is imposing real emergency. Shame!!” she further state.

Soon after the arrest of Hegde, BJP hashtag #IStandWithMaheshHegde was trending on twitter.

According to the reports, Hegde was arrested following a complaint by Karnataka Home Minister M B Patil at Adarsh Nagar Police Station in Vijayapura, in connection with a fake letter pertaining to Lingayat issue. The fake letter had originally surfaced during 2018 assembly election and went viral again right ahead of the second phase election in Karnataka on April 23.

BJP state general secretary CT Ravi also defended Hegde and tweeted that the ‘unholy alliance government’ is playing ‘Neech politics’.

Dakshina Kannada BJP Unit also jumped into to support Hegde and condemned the arrest on twitter.

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Guna (MP), Jan 12: Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia has said a Passport Seva Kendra will be opened in each of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in the country.

Scindia made the announcement on Saturday while inaugurating a Passport Seva Kendra in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna, the parliamentary constituency he represents.

The Union minister also said that six new passport centres will be opened in MP this year.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to establish a Passport Seva Kendra in each parliamentary constituency with the aim of expanding services. The Department of Posts, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, is committed to making this resolution a reality,” he said.

The minister also informed that 6,000 post offices have been opened across the country.

“We should try to revive the tradition of writing letters by hand in the country because it expresses true feelings of the heart,” he said.

Scindia said several technological changes have taken place in the post office services.

The people of Guna had to go to Bhopal and Gwalior to get their passports made, but the Passport Seva Kendra will resolve their problems, he said.