CM Yediyurappa should control 'hooligans' of his party: Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru, Jan 9: Accusing the BJP of threatening college students here to support the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act, senior Congress leader K Siddaramaiah on Thursday said Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa should control "hooligans" from his party.
The former Chief Minister was reacting to an incident where some BJP workers allegedly created ruckus near a girl's college here, while seeking support for CAA by raising slogans, as students opposed a pro-CAA banner on the wall of their institution.
"@BJP4Karnataka goons are threatening students of Jyotinivas College to support CAA. Mr @BSYBJP, I am strictly warning you to control hooligans from your party.
Don't subvert knowledge & institutions for your selfish motives. We won't let Ktaka to be victim of your Hitler rule!" Siddaramaiah tweeted.
"Educational institutions are a source of dissemination of knowledge, critical thinking & scientific temper.
While @BJP4India ideology is on weak foundations of fascism. BJP is threatened by the knowledge base of our Universities & hence they want to subvert & weaken them," he said in another tweet.
Later, speaking to reporters in Hubballi, Siddaramaiah said there was no democracy in the country now, and the freedom of expression that has been guaranteed by the constitution is being curtailed.
Alleging that an "atmosphere of fear" was being created in the country, he reiterated that the recent attack on students at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was "government sponsored" and questioned as to why no one has been arrested so for in connection with the incident.
The Congress leader also claimed that the freedom of students and rights enshrined for citizens under the Constitution are being snatched away, and there was kind of "totalitarianism" in the country these days.
.@BJP4Karnataka goons are threatening students of Jyotinivas College to support CAA.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) January 9, 2020
Mr @BSYBJP,
I am strictly warning you to control hooligans from your party. Don't subvert knowledge & institutions for your selfish motives. We won't let Ktaka to be victim of your Hitler rule!
Educational institutions are a source of dissemination of knowledge, critical thinking & scientific temper. While @BJP4India ideology is on weak foundations of fascism.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) January 9, 2020
BJP is threatened by the knowledge base of our Universities & hence they want to subvert & weaken them.
"You are not Indians," said one of the BJP workers to JNC students who opposed the pro-CAA posters on their college wall. #CAA_NRC pic.twitter.com/cB1gdV0PPX
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England sticking with Key, McCullum and Stokes despite Ashes humbling
London (AP): England is not sacking anybody following the 4-1 Ashes loss in Australia.
A review of the tour by the England and Wales Cricket Board, announced within hours of the final match in January, was concluded on Monday. Firing people would “be the easy thing to do,” ECB chief executive Richard Gould said but he insisted, "This is not the time to throw everything out."
Managing director Rob Key, coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes kept their jobs after the best England side to go to Australia in 14 years lost the Ashes in 11 days with two games to spare.
“Moving people on can sometimes be the easy thing to do. That's not the route that we're going to take,” Gould said. “I've seen the driving ambition and determination that we're lucky enough to have within our leadership group to take the lessons from the Ashes and move forward.”
Gould previously was the chief executive of Bristol City soccer club and said the ECB would not follow the same route as soccer's hire-and-fire culture.
“Cricket is a very unique sport in that it takes a team of leadership ... it's not like football where there's a single point of failure or success with a manager," he said. He added the ECB would not “select or deselect management based on a popularity campaign.”
The main criticisms of England's tour were poor preparation, player misbehavior, and selection mistakes.
At a press conference at Lord's, Gould and Key said McCullum and Stokes have not had a “bust up,” they did not want McCullum to “completely change” but “to evolve,” the behavior of some players was “unprofessional,” there will be more consequences for underperforming, and a commitment to “better long-term planning” ahead of major test series.
Some changes were already implemented for the Twenty20 World Cup, where England reached the semifinals. Gould implied that performance saved McCullum.
Key acknowledged that England supporters would be disappointed to see the management team go unpunished.
“I know people want punishment and that people then should be sacked for that,” Key said. “That doesn't mean we don't feel like we've gone through some serious pain: Brendon, myself, Ben. It's been as tough a time as I think I've had.”
