11 MLCs take oath today
Bengaluru, June 18: All the 11 newly elected Legislative Council Members K Govindaraju, BM Farooq, K Harish Kumar, Aravind Kumar Arali, CM Ibrahim, Tejashwini Gowda, Dharme Gowda, KP Nanjundi, Raghunath Rao Malkapure, Ravikumar and Rudre Gowda took oath in the name of the God in a simple programme at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Monday.
They took oath in the presence of Legislative Council Chairman DH Shankaramurthy.
Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Woman and Child Welfare and Kannada and Culture departments Minister Jayamala, Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa were present on the occasion.
'Felicitated'
Motamma, Ramachandra Gowda, Amarnath Patil, MD Lakshminarayana, DS Veeraiah who retired as MLCs were felicitated on the occasion.
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Lalu Prasad slams BJP over heckling of woman singer
Chaos over "Raghupati Raghav..." at Vajpayee memorial
Patna, Dec 26: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Thursday slammed the BJP over alleged heckling of a woman artist who sang a bhajan, known to be a favourite of Mahatma Gandhi, at a function organised on the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee a day ago.
The RJD supremo, on his X handle, alleged that the BJP leaders had taken exception to the phrase 'Sita Ram' and asked the singer to apologise before erupting in roars of "Jai Shri Ram".
The well-attended function was held on Wednesday at Bapu Sabhagar, a sprawling state-of-the-art auditorium in the heart of the city.
The septuagenarian alleged that the incident was "reflective of the misogyny that the BJP and the Sangh Parivar was known for" and its "disdain for females was resulting in disrespect for 'Sita Mata'."
However, BJP sources, who did not wish to be named, pointed out that the newspaper report shared by Prasad in an earlier tweet clearly stated that the furore was not over 'Sita Ram', but the subsequent stanza - 'Ishwar Allah Tero Naam'.
The sources claimed that party workers were opposed to the "recital of a line that was not part of the original verse composed by 15th-century poet Narsi Mehta, but inserted later, apparently in line with Gandhi's Hindu-Muslim unity plank".
संघियों और भाजपाइयों को “जय सियाराम, जय सीताराम” के नाम एवं नारे से शुरू ही नफरत है क्योंकि उसमें माता सीता का जयकारा है। ये लोग शुरू से ही महिला विरोधी है तथा “जय श्री राम’ के नारे के साथ आधी आबादी महिलाओं का भी अपमान करते हैं।
— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) December 26, 2024
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