Congress legislature party to meet on May 24; discussions to be held on speaker’s election
Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has convened a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) on May 24 at 9:00 AM at the conference hall on the third floor of Vidhana Soudha.
AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, KPCC president and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, state Congress in- charge Randeep Singh Surjewala and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council B K Hariprasad will be present at the meeting.
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According to sources, the meeting has been convened to deliberate on the selection of the individual who will assume the role of Speaker.
The meeting comes ahead of the election slated for the new Speaker of the Assembly scheduled to take place on May 24.
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3 Naxalites killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur
Bijapur, Apr 12 (PTI): Three Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Saturday morning, police said.
The gunfight broke out in a forest in the Indravati National Park area around 9 am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation, Inspector General of Police, Bastar Range Sundarraj P said.
Personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from Bijapur and Dantewada districts, Special Task Force (STF), the 202nd and 210th battalions of CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action — an elite unit of the CRPF) were involved in the operation, he said.
The DRG is a unit of the state police.
The official said the bodies of three Naxalites and a cache of weapons and explosives were recovered from the spot.
The operation was underway in the area, he added.
With the latest action, 138 Naxalites have been gunned down in separate encounters in the state so far this year. Of them, 122 were eliminated in the Bastar division, comprising seven districts, including Bijapur.
