100 years to AICC Belagavi session: ‘You can kill Gandhi, not his ideas’, says Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru: CM Siddaramaiah said that Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, was the conscience of India and no one could kill his thoughts. Godse was a leader for the BJP people and the party's conspiracy to create an India based on his ideas must be defeated, he said. He was speaking at 'Gandhi Bharat', a program to commemorate hundred years to All India Congress Committee (AICC) session at Belagavi under the chairmanship of Mahatma, at Bharat Jodo Bhavan in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
"The Belagavi session of Congress, held under Gandhi's chairmanship, was a historic event. Gandhi was one of the rarest saints the world saw. He makes Indians proud. BJP is engaged in a very low level politics against the Mahatma. It is trying to build a Godse's India. We must spoil this plot", he said.
Calling Gandhi the soul and consciousness of India, Siddaramaiah said that 'Godses' mustn't be allowed to thrive here. “We must not allow anyone to shatter our society in the name of religion or caste. The communal forces must be defeated. These divisive forces are a threat to the development of the state and the nation. Whenever BJP was in power, they were always busy dividing the society in the name of religion and caste; they never formulated any people-centric or development-centric programs. Nor was such a thing ever implemented. A pro-people development has no place in BJP", he said.
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Alleging that the opposition humiliated the beneficiaries of the state's guarantee schemes meant to help people of all sections of the society, Siddaramaiah said that BJP-JDS floated wrong information about the programs. "Gandhi had stressed on Hindu-Muslim unity, gram swarajya and the idea of sarvodaya in the Belagavi session. This is the ideology and the program of Congress", he added.
Siddaramaiah said that Gandhi was India's soul, consciousness and its way of thinking. “So he may be killed physically. However, his principles and ideas can never be eliminated. It’s a part of this soil", he said.
Requesting all to participate in the year-long centenary celebrations of the 1924 Belagavi session, the CM said that we must remember how National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the Anna Bhagya scheme had saved millions from hunger during the COVID pandemic. “Former PM Manmohan Singh must be remembered for the employment guarantee and the food security acts he implemented”, Siddaramaiah added.
Alleging a conspiracy against the law planned by BJP across the nation, Siddaramaiah said that the party was trying to bring about a nationwide political instability by defeating the legal system. "As Mahatma Gandhi said, 'The court of conscience is greater than all courts'. Let us obey it", he added.
KPCC President D K Shivakumar, Former CM Veerappa Moily, Minister for Law H K Patil and others were present.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
