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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ICC bans Sri Lankan cricketer Praveen Jayawickrama
Dubai, Oct 2: The ICC has banned Sri Lanka player Praveen Jayawickrama from all cricket for one year, of which six months are suspended, after he admitted breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code, parent body said in a press release on Wednesday. The charges relate to international cricket and the Lanka Premier League.
Jayawickrama admitted to being in breach of the following provision under the Code:
Article 2.4.7 – Obstructing or delaying any investigation that may be carried out by the ACU, including concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct under the Anti-Corruption Code.
As a result of the admission, Jayawickrama has accepted a sanction of a one-year period of ineligibility, of which the last six months are suspended.
The ICC Anti-Corruption Code and the complete decision (which has been redacted to protect the identities of the ICC’s witnesses and other third parties) can be found here.
