Cong-JDS to launch joint campaign for LS polls with mega rally on Sunday
Bengaluru, Mar 30: The ruling alliance in Karnataka will launch their joint Lok Sabha polls campaign Sunday with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda addressing a mega rally on the outskirts of the city.
Titled 'Parivartana Samavesha', this will be the first rally jointly organised by the Congress and JD(S) after the combine came to power.
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who visited BIEC ground near Nelamangala to inspect the arrangements being made, said the event would be "historic."
"This will be the first joint campaign by Congress and JD(S)...tomorrow's meeting is historic as it will send a clear message to the people of the country from Karnataka for Lok Sabha polls," Kumaraswamy told reporters here.
Congress and JD(S) ministers, MLAs and leaders will be part of the event.
Sunday evening's rally will also be attended by lakhs of workers of both parties from Tumkur, Ramanagara, Bengaluru Rural and Bengaluru urban districts, Congress and JDS sources said.
Following this, state leaders of both parties would organise similar joint meetings at several places across Karnataka, they said.
According to seat sharing arrangements, the Congress and JD(S) have decided to contest in 21 and 7 seats respectively.
For the coalition to emerge as a formidable opposition to BJP and win more number of seats, it is crucial for the Congress to transfer its votes to the JD(S) and vice-versa.
However, dissidence over seat sharing among workers of both parties, who have been arch rivals for decades, has caused worry to coalition leaders.
According to the sources, organising the joint campaign is aimed at addressing this disgruntlement and send out a message that both the alliance partners are together.
Both parties that had fought against each other ahead of May 2018 assembly polls joined hands to form an alliance as the election threw up a hung verdict.
Karnataka will go to the polls in two phases, 14 constituencies each, on April 18 and 23.
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Russian general killed by bomb under his car in Moscow
Moscow (AP): A Russian general was killed on Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, investigators said.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, died from his injuries, Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee, said.
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“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
Russian news outlets reported that a car exploded in a parking lot on Moscow's Yaseneva Street with the driver inside at approximately 7 am.
Ukraine's security service claimed responsibility for a similar attack against a high-ranking Russian soldier in December 2024.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, was killed by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter outside his apartment building a day after Kyiv levelled criminal charges against him. His assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, was also killed.
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