All districts to get Gandhi Bhavans in a year, CM Bommai says at Gandhi Jayanti event
Halls built in 23 districts of Karnataka; seven districts yet to get Gandhi Bhavans
Bengaluru: The Karnataka state government will complete the work of constructing Gandhi Bhavans in all districts of the state within a year’s time, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said.
“Already, we have constructed the Gandhi Bhavans in 23 districts. The government will get the halls constructed in the remaining seven districts by a year,” Bommai said on Sunday, inaugurating the Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti programme at the Mahadeva Desai Hall of the Gandhi Bhavan in the city.
The programme was held by the Information and Public Relations Department with the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi.
Renowned psychologist Dr C R Chandrashekhar was honoured with the state government’s Mahatma Gandhi Seva Prashasti for the year 2022 on the occasion.
Bommai, addressing the gathering, said, “The selection of Dr Chandrashekhar is an honour for the award too. The government will utilize his services for the welfare of the citizens.”
Speaking on other works of the government, the chief minister said, “Special programmes will be undertaken to promote khadi and rural industries and provide them with a better market for the goods produced. While rural development is extremely important, Karnataka is advanced in this field. Digitization is being implemented in villages too. Technological revolution is helping reach government facilities to the villages.”
Dr Chandrashekhar, who received the award, declared that he would hand the cash prize of Rs 5 lakh to National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans).
“My two houses, sites and an amount of Rs 1.09 crore received after my retirement will be given to Nimhans. Mental health is a highly neglected field and needs to receive greater attention,” said Dr Chandrashekhar, adding that Karnataka is a model to other states for work in the field.
Achievers in many fields were felicitated with the Karnataka Gandhi Smaraka Prashasti as a part of the Gandhi Jayanti programme.
Five books published by the Bengaluru Gandhi Bhavan and the book ‘Skills for Students’ by Dr Chandrashekhar were released by Chief Minister Bommai during the event. A book exhibition and sale was also held on the occasion.
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Sharad Pawar praised RSS after seeing how it burst fake narrative balloon of LS polls: Fadnavis
Nagpur, Jan 10: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar praised the RSS after realising how the outfit managed to overcome the fake narrative spread by the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The opposition had claimed BJP wanted to win 400 seats to change the Constitution and end reservations, a narrative which BJP leaders later claimed hit the party hard.
On Pawar praising the RSS recently, the CM said the MVA was successful in creating a fake narrative during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
"When assembly polls were approaching, many people from diverse fields who are inspired by the RSS played their role and burst the balloon of this fake narrative. Sharad Pawar saheb is very intelligent. He would have certainly studied this aspect. He realised that this (RSS) is not a regular political power but a nationalist power. In any competition it is good to praise others," he added.
That is why Pawar may have praised the RSS, Fadnavis said.
Speaking at an interaction with senior editor Vivek Ghalsasi at Late Vilasji Fadnis Jivhala programme here, Fadnavis also said he had asked for organisational work when Eknath Shinde was made chief minister in June 2022, but senior leaders asked him to join the government.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him not to behave like an extra-constitutional authority in the government.
He said the decision to become deputy chief minister on the command of the party leadership earned him a lot of praise from the cadre.
After the massive mandate the ruling alliance received in the 2024 assembly polls, Fadnavis said people and party workers would not have been happy if the CM was not from the BJP.
Shinde himself agreed within minutes that the CM must be from the BJP, which itself got 132 seats and was close to a majority of its own in the 288-member assembly, he added.
On Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meeting him during the winter sessions of the legislature in Nagpur, Fadnavis said he had announced he would not indulge in politics of revenge after becoming CM and all leaders responded positively to it.
On chances of the NCP (SP) and NCP coming closer or reuniting, Fadnavis said, "If you see the developments that took place from 2019 to 2024, I realised never say never and anything can happen. Uddhav Thackeray goes to some other party and Ajit Pawar comes to us. In politics anything can happen though I am not saying this should happen."
He praised BJP leader Arun Gujarati from whom he learnt patience, which he claimed was an important quality in politics along with the ability to take criticism.
In a lighter vein, he said, "I only get angry when I am hungry. If you see me angry then give me something to eat and my anger will go away."
