District Ministers appointed
Bengaluru, July 31: After dilly-dallying for almost three months, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy entrusted the responsibilities of districts to his cabinet colleagues on Tuesday.
Dr G Parameshwar- Bengaluru Urban and Tumakur, RV Deshapande- Uttara Kannada and Dharwad, DK Shivakumar- Ramanagar and Ballary, KJ George- Chikmagaluru, Ramesh Jarkiholi- Belagavi, Shivanand Patil- Bagalkote, Priyanka Kharge- Kalaburgi, Rajashekar B Patil- Yadagiri, Venkataramanappa- Chitradurga, NS Shivashankar Reddy- Chikkaballapura, Krishna Bhyre Gowda- Bengaluru Rural and Kolara, UT Khader- Dakshina Kannada, C Puttaranga Shetty- Chamaraj Nagar, Zameer Ahmed Khan- Haveri, Jayamala- Udupi, R Shankar- Koppal, N Mahesh- Gadag, Venkatarao Nadagauda- Raichur, SR Srinivas- Davangere, CS Puttaraju- Mandya, SR Mahesh- Kodagu, Bandeppa Kashampur- Bidar, HD Revanna- Hassan, DC Thammanna- Shivamogga, MC Managoli- Vijayapura and GT Deve Gowda- Mysuru.
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Test of democracy is king tolerates dissent, introspects: Nitin Gadkari
Pune, Sep 21: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said the biggest test of democracy is that the ruler tolerates even the strongest opinion against him, and it leads to introspection.
Writers and intellectuals should express themselves fearlessly, the senior BJP leader said at a book release function held at MIT World Peace University here on Friday.
"The biggest test of democracy is that the king tolerates the strongest opinion against him and introspects over it," he said.
In India, there is no problem of difference of opinion but "there is a problem of lack of opinion," the Road Transport and Highways Minister said.
"We are neither rightist, nor leftist. We are opportunists. It is expected from writers and intellectuals that they express their opinions without any fear," he added.
Gadkari also said that as long as untouchability and notions of social inferiority and superiority persist, the work of nation-building can not be said to be complete.
