Congress leader DK Suresh says he is under pressure to contest from Channapatna assembly seat

Vartha Bharati | 20-10-2024 | 17:16:00 IST

Former Congress MP D K Suresh | PC: ANI

Bengaluru, Oct 20: Former Congress MP DK Suresh on Sunday said he is under pressure from party workers and leaders to contest in the November 13 by-poll from Channapatna seat.

Suresh, brother of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, said he along with all Congress workers and leaders from the segment will abide by the party's decision.

"We have held discussions with leaders and workers from Channapatna taluk under the leadership of state President D K Shivakumar and we have gathered their opinion. They have all said that they will abide by the party's decision. There is also pressure on me to contest," he said.

Addressing reporters here, he said he will abide by the decision of the party high command and AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge.

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"More than a candidate, I'm happy to work as a worker along with other party workers, I have asked party leaders to give me an opportunity. Whatever the party decides in two to three days, all the leaders and workers will abide by it," he added.

Channapatna will go for by-polls along with Sandur and Shiggaon Assembly segments on November 13.

Channapatna bypoll is necessitated after the seat fell vacant following the election of its representative -- JD(S) state President and now Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy -- to Lok Sabha from Mandya parliamentary segment.

BJP-JD(S) alliance is also yet to finalise their candidate for the Channapatna seat.

According to leaders from the alliance parties, BJP has ceded the seat to JD(S) and the regional party under Kumaraswamy will announce the candidate soon.

However, BJP MLC C P Yogeeshwara has been repeatedly claiming that he will be the alliance candidate. This even as Kumaraswamy stating recently that there is pressure on him from within his party, to field a JD(S) candidate, especially its youth wing president and his son, Nikhil Kumaraswamy from Channapatna.

There are also reports that Yogeeshwara may contest on the JD(S) ticket, as per arrangement between both sides.

Kumaraswamy had won the Channapatna seat in 2018 and 2023. Before that Yogeeshwara had represented the seat from BJP and Samajwadi Party. He had earlier also represented the seat both as an independent and from the Congress.

"D K Brothers" --Shivakumar and Suresh -- are hoping to regain lost grounds in the region, after the Lok Sabha poll debacle from there. Suresh had lost May Lok Sabha polls to BJP-JD(S) joint candidate Dr C N Manjunath in Bangalore Rural Lok Sabha segment, under which the Channapatna Assembly segment comes.

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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters

24-11-2024 ¦ 24-11-2024 IST

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Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.

Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.

Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.

“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.

One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.

Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.

Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.

“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.