Udupi district Bandh on November 10 opposing sand problem
Action Committee for Sand decides to hold bandh
Udupi, October 31: Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat said that overnight dharna would be continued till the district administration allow sand mining in CRZ and non-CRZ zones and the district bandh would be observed on November 10.
The MLA disclosed the resolutions taken in the meeting of the organisations who have been staying dharna for the last seven days led by Udupi District Action Committee for Sand, here on Wednesday.
The protest would continue till the district administration gave permission for sand mining. As there is code of conduct in force and festival holidays till November 8, they have decided to observe bandh on November 10 to attract the attention of the government. After November 10, all activities of construction sector would be suspended, he said.
Arrogance of CM
The statement of the Chief Minister that the centre was responsible for sand problem was not right. The state government was showing adamant attitude in the issue. The state government was not in a position to control the AC office in the district, Opposition Leader in Legislative Council Kota Srinivas Poojary criticized.
It was planning to take this agitation to the home office of the Chief Minister to find a logical end to the problem. Instead of showing adamant attitude, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy should solve the problem, he demanded.
MLA Lalji R. Mendon, Former Minister Jayaprakash Hegde, Boats Workers Association President Sudhakar Amin, ZP Vice President Sheela K. Shetty, Action Committee for Sand convener M.G Nagendra, PWD Contractors Association President Alevur Sridhar Shetty, Gopal Bhat of Udupi Engineers Association, Lorry Owners Association President Praveen Suvarna, Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Krishnaraj Kodancha and others were present.
Fight against centre too: Bhat
The state government has written a letter to the central government on October 25 and thus rolled the ball from the district administration to the centre. It was purposefully done in order to avoid sand mining. Protest would be held against this on November 10. If the centre took a adverse decision against the sand issue, they would also fight against the central government, the MLA warned. They would not backtrack from the protest, MLA K. Raghupathi Bhat warned.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
