Bengaluru: Kodi Circle to be renamed after late IPS officer Madhukar Shetty

Shetty's statue will also be installed at the circle

Vartha Bharati | 11-07-2019 | 13:07:00 IST

Bengaluru: As a mark of respect to the late IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, BBMP will rename the Kodi Circle in Whitefield as Madhukar Shetty Circle and will install his statue at the circle, Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun informed.

Fore DCP of Whitefield Abdul Ahad and other friends of Shetty wanted a circle in the locality be named after Madhukar Shetty, following which Corporator S Uday Kumar proposed the plan of naming Kodi Circle after Shetty. The Pallike’s Town Planning Standing Committee approved the proposal of Uday Kumar.

According to the reports the funds sanctioned for the development of the ward will be used for installing Shetty’s statue at the circle.

Shetty a 1999 batch IPS officer died in December 2018 while undergoing treatment for swine flu at Continental Hospitals in Hyderabad. He is remembered for his role in exposing illegal iron ore mining in Ballari, the backyard of powerful mining baron Janardhan Reddy.

Shetty was the son of Kannada journalist Vaddarse Raghurama Shetty.and had worked as ASP Bengaluru Rural district and later as SP of Chamarajanagar and Chikkamagaluru.

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Odisha: BJD suspends 6 MLAs for cross-voting in RS polls

21-03-2026 ¦ 21-03-2026 IST

Courtesy: PTI

Bhubaneswar (PTI): The Biju Janata Dal on Saturday suspended six of its MLAs for cross-voting during the recent election to four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha.

The suspended legislators were Chakramani Kanhar of Baliguda seat, Naba Kishor Mallick of Jayadev constituency, Souvic Biswal of Choudwar-Cuttack, Subasini Jena of Basta, Ramakanta Bhoi of Tirtol and Devi Ranjan Tripathy of Banki, an order by party chief Naveen Patnaik showed.

The suspension decision was taken at the opposition party's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting presided over by Patnaik.

The six MLAs were issued a show-cause notice on March 17.

They submitted their replies on Friday evening, and those were found not satisfactory, said the BJD's chief whip in the Assembly, Pramila Mallik.

The ruling BJP won two of the four Rajya Sabha seats while the opposition BJD and a saffron party-backed Independent candidate bagged one seat each in the biennial polls held last Monday.

While the total number of BJP legislators and Independent MLAs supporting the ruling party was 82 in the 147-member House, the saffron party candidates secured 93 first preference votes, which was 11 more than its strength in the Assembly.

Of these 11 votes, eight were of BJD MLAs and three of Congress legislators, an official had said.