Goods transport vehicle rams into parked SUV on NH 4 in Tumakuru; two killed on the spot
Tumakuru: Two people were killed on the spot as a goods transport vehicle rammed into a broken down SUV that had been parked by the National Highway 4 in Kora, pre-dawn on Thursday.
The deceased duo is identified as 35-year-old Shankar, a native of Gangavathi and the driver of the SUV, and 40-year-old Satish, also from Gangavathi and the owner of a private ration distribution centre.
Both of them are learned to have been traveling to Bengaluru in the SUV to participate in a protest of ration distribution centre owners held at the Freedom Park in the state capital. One of the Rear tyres of the vehicle got punctured near Kora, forcing the duo to park the SUV by the road and change the tyre, when the goods transport vehicle coming down the road rammed into the vehicle, resulting in the death of both Shankar and Satish.
A case has been booked in the Kora Police Station and the officers are investigating the incident.
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PM Modi, RSS strengthening wall in path of SCs, STs, OBCs: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall standing in the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the UPA took steps to weaken that wall but not to the extent it should have.
Addressing the 'Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan', Gandhi also referred to the function held on Constitution Day in Parliament and said that it is his guarantee, that "Modi has not read" the Constitution.
"If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it," Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country's whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs and Modi and the RSS are strengthening that wall by "adding cement to it".
"Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food...those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have," Gandhi said.
"However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete," the former Congress president said.
Gandhi said a caste survey being carried out in Telangana is a historic step and the Congress will do the same wherever it comes to power.
