Congress leaders have contacted me, says D V Sadananda Gowda
Bengaluru: Former Chief Minister of Karnataka D V Sadandanda Gowda said that he was deeply disappointed with BJP for denying him ticket to contest Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru (North) constituency.
Revealing that he was contacted by Congress leaders, Gowda declared that he would be revealing his decision on Tuesday. He was speaking to the media after celebrating his 72nd birthday with family and friends on Monday in his residence at Dollars Colony, Bengaluru.
Stressing that he would make his decision after consulting his family, Sadananda Gowda said that a senior BJP leader had visited his house on Sunday and he would be sharing the details tomorrow. Speaking on Former Deputy CM K S Eshwarappa’s rebellion against the party, Gowda said that he had advised Eshwarappa to take a joint delegation of all disgruntled leaders to the high command. “He has already made his decision known. I don’t want to comment on that”, he added.
“Only my name came up in the survey conducted to select a candidate for Bengaluru North. I was promised a ticket, but no one came to me at the end. I have been watching certain developments that have happened in Delhi and the state”, Sadananda Gowda said.
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Gowda said that he was organizing a press meet on Tuesday to unburden his heart about the injustice that has happened to him. While ups and downs were a common thing in politics, he said that he was deeply saddened by intentional neglect he had faced.
Sadananda Gowda is hurt by his candidacy for Bengaluru North LS constituency handed over to Shobha Karandlaje. It is known that KPCC President D K Shivakumar has tried to make the most of this rift by inviting the aggrieved BJP veteran to his party through Puttur MLA Ashok Rai. Sources tell that Congress is deliberating to launch him from Bangalore North constituency, if Sadananda Gowda accepts the proposal.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
