BJP MP Surya heckled by people at campaign in Bengaluru, leaves event midway
Bengaluru: BJP MP Tejasvi Surya was forced to leave an election campaign event at Basavanagudi in the city on Sunday, after investors who lost huge amounts of money due to a multi-crore scam involving the cooperative bank, Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank Limited, heckled Surya, demanding answers to their queries in the matter.
The investors who attended the event at Laxmanrao Imandar auditorium of Basavanagudi on Sunday forced Surya and BJP MLA from Basavanagudi LA Ravi Subramanya to clarify why the bank was delaying in compensating them for the losses that the investors had suffered due to the scam. The BJP leaders tried to pacify the bank investors, but the responses to the questions failed to satisfy the investors.
Video clips of the incident have gone viral on social media, and show the security leading the MP out of the hall. The MP, however, is also seen arguing with some of the angry investors while walking away.
The bank management had allegedly misappropriated around Rs 2,500 crore, in the said scam. The matter came to light in 2020, when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed withdrawal restrictions on the cooperative bank. More than 45,000 depositors had invested in the bank, and most of them received the Rs 5 lakh insurance amount from the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation.
Over 15,000 depositors, whose deposit amounts exceed a total of Rs 6 lakh, have not been fully compensated. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which probed the matter, attached the bank’s properties worth Rs 159 crore. The bank management has been accused of siphoning huge amounts of money, hand-in-glove with other people in the act.
The Karnataka government had also ordered in December 2023 an investigation of the scam by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
