Each candidate will get only one ticket in Karnataka Elections: DK Shivakumar
Bengaluru: KPCC President and senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Friday said that the party will give each candidate only one ticket in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections that are due next year.
He was speaking to media reporters at his house in the city.
The reporters, pointing out that applicants had been approaching both Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah at the leaders’ homes, asked the Congress leader if such visits would give rise to problems. The KPCC president responded that, regardless of members’ visits, every applicant would be given only one ticket for the polls.
“The members need to keep personal interests aside and stay united to fight the elections. The party is always more important than an individual member. We need to get the party back to power - only then will the members too come to power,” Shivakumar reminded, adding, “It is, of course, difficult to specify the managerial capability of every member. Some members might be able to handle only 10 booths, while others could handle even 100 booths. We cannot gauge this now.”
When asked about the collection of funds and donations from ticket applicants in the party, Shivakumar told the media persons that this was an old system in Congress. “Applicants gave donations earlier too. Unlike before, however, it has come to the news much more now,” he added.
“We need funds for election work and also the construction of the offices of the Congress at block and district levels, among other things. In contrast, however, when the members and activists need financial aid, the party helps them, using the funds collected,” Shivakumar clarified.
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Amid row over Waqf land, Karnataka officials to appear before parliamentary panel
New Delhi, Dec 25: Amid a row over Waqf land in Karnataka, officials from the state government are scheduled to appear before the parliamentary panel examining the Waqf Amendment Bill on Thursday.
The Joint Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill, chaired by BJP member Jagadambika Pal, is scheduled to hear views from representatives of the governments of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Delhi in sittings spread over two days beginning Thursday.
Delhi's Food and Supply Minister Imran Hussain is also scheduled to address the committee on Friday, followed by the recording of evidence by the representatives of the Delhi government.
The deposition of officials from the Congress-led Karnataka government comes in the wake of a row over claims by BJP leaders that over 1500 acres of land belonging to farmers in the state were being taken over by the Waqf board.
Pal had visited Karnataka and interacted with the farmers who had received notices from the state government regarding encroachment over properties belonging to the Waqf Board.
The committee had also written to state governments seeking details of Waqf properties occupied by them in an unauthorised manner as per the Sachar panel report.
The UPA government constituted the Sachar Committee in 2005 to study the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in India.
The parliamentary panel was constituted on August 8, soon after the Waqf (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha.
Opposition parties have stridently criticised the amendments proposed by the bill in the existing Waqf Act, alleging that they violate the religious rights of Muslims. The ruling BJP has asserted that the amendments will bring transparency in the functioning of the waqf boards and make them accountable.
