Bengaluru, September 23: “The party will not tolerate if the party discipline is violated. Blackmail strategies will not be accepted”, warned AICC general secretary and Karnataka Congress incharge K.C. Venugopal.  

After releasing the Women Union logo of the party at the KPCC office here on Sunday, Venugopal said that dissident activities being in the party would not be tolerated. Action would be taken against those who use pressure tactics, he warned.  

The BJP leaders have been indulging in vindictive politics to destabilize the coalition government. Former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa himself has offered money and positions to the Congress leaders. Such an unethical politics was not good for the healthy democratic set up, he said.

Such developments would not happen in Karnataka as the people would not allow such deeds. No Congress MLA would leave the party, he clarified.

KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao, Working President Eshwar Khandre, KPCC Women Unit President and MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar, former minister Motamma and other Congress leaders were present.



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Lucknow (PTI): A security guard of a Ghaziabad bank upset over leave and salary related issues walked into the manager's cabin and shot him dead, police said on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old manager of the Loni branch of the Punjab and Sind Bank was rushed to a hospital on Monday where he was declared dead, they said.

The security guard, Ravindra Hooda (50) and his accomplice, Shishupal (57), have been arrested, police said.

"The security guard along with his accomplice entered the cabin of the bank manager and fired at him. The injured bank manager was taken to GTB Hospital in Delhi for treatment, where doctors declared him as dead," police said in a statement.

SHO Loni Border Manish Bist on Tuesday said the bank manager, Abhishek Kumar, was from Patna. He has been posted in Ghaziabad since August 2025, and was living in a rented house with his wife.

Police said that during interrogation, Hooda said he had been working in the branch for the past two and a half months.

"He said his salary was reduced, and when he would ask for leave, it was refused. Following this, there was an argument with him (Abhishek Kumar)," the police statement said.

He said he fired at the bank manager in anger and that Shishupal was present with him during the incident, it added. Hooda and Shishupal were from the same village in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.

Police said a case under section 103 (1) (punishment for murder) of the BNS has been registered against him. Police have recovered a double-barrel gun and ammunition and the Arms Act has also been slapped on the accused, the statement said.