Bengaluru: Torrential rains create flood-like situation
Bengaluru: Torrential monsoon rains wreaked havoc in the state capital on Wednesday, leading to widespread flooding of city roads.
Several areas including Vijayanagar, KR Market, Gandhinagar, Rajajinagar, Rajarajeshwari Nagar, and Jalahalli experienced heavy downpours. The city remained overcast throughout the morning, and by evening, heavy rains lashed many parts of Bengaluru. The incessant rain resulted in flooded streets, leaving motorists stranded.
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The downpour disrupted vehicular traffic, with many riders taking shelter under metro pillars and shop awnings. The heavy rain persisted for half an hour, causing irritation among motorists as they navigated pothole-ridden roads. This led to significant traffic jams across the city.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
