Congress MLCs will personally post 'PAYCM' posters in Bengaluru: D K Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Condemning the arrest of Congress activists on charges of posting the controversial ‘PAYCM’ posters here, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar has stated that the party legislators would themselves post the placards on Friday.
Addressing reporters in the city on Thursday, the senior Congress leader said a campaign would be held against the arrest.
“All the Congress members of the Legislative Council will undertake the work in objection to an unfounded accusation and arrest thereby. We will stick the posters on the building walls of a government office in a Bengaluru locality,” he challenged.
Calling it a joint decision of the Congressmen, the president stated further that an act of posting placards was, by no means, illegal.
Shivakumar also gave a call to the party legislators, “Every member of the party should participate in the campaign on Friday.”
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
