If you needle us, you will go to jail again, Siddaramaiah hits back at Janardhana Reddy
Kudligi, October 29: “Don’t try to provoke us. If you do it, you may have to go to jail again after cancelling the bail”, former chief minister Siddaramaiah hits back at Janardhana Reddy.
Speaking at a by-election campaigning here on Monday, Siddaramaiah said that “when there was a debate on Justice Santosh Hegde report on illegal mining in the Session, Janardhana Reddy had challenged me to come to Ballary if I have guts. I had accepted the challenge and conducted Padayatre from Bengaluru to Ballary. Since that day, the Ballary Republic built by the Reddy gang was started to collapse. After that, Janardhana Reddy was jailed. Don’t try to needle us again. You may have to go to jail again after cancelling the bail”, he said.
“I have received the challenge of Janardhana Reddy. I am ready for open debate with him. Let Janardhana Reddy, who was banished from Ballary, fix the time and place. Golden commodes and golden chairs were the evidences for Reddy’s luxurious life. Where did he get all these? Not only Ballary, but the entire country knew that he had looted money through illegal mining. Are you not ashamed of claiming yourself as honest”, Siddaramaiah ridiculed.
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Trump pauses Project Freedom, claims great progress for final agreement with Iran
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump has suspended “Project Freedom,” to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, claiming progress in negotiations with Iran toward an agreement to end the war.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump said, “Great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran.”
“Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed," Trump said.
Project Freedom was launched on Monday to escort ships, stranded due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, out to safety. Trump had announced the operation on Sunday and the US Central Command began implementing it the next day.
However, the Project led to friction in the vicinity of the narrow seaway, a key route for transporting one-fifth of the global oil supplies, with the UAE claiming that its ships were attacked by Iran. The US also claimed to have destroyed several Iranian small boats.
Trump’s statement on Truth Social came hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Operation Epic Fury, launched on February 28, had concluded as its objectives have been achieved.
"Operation Epic Fury is concluded. We achieved the objectives of that operation. We're not cheering for an additional situation to occur. We would prefer the path of peace. What @POTUS would prefer is a deal... that is, so far, not the route that Iran has chosen," Rubio told a press conference at the White House on Tuesday.
On Project Freedom, Rubio said the goal was to rescue almost 23,000 civilians from 87 different countries who were trapped inside the Persian Gulf and left for dead by the Iranian regime.
"This is not an offensive operation. This is a defensive operation, and what that means is very simple: there’s no shooting unless we're shot at first. We’re not attacking them, but if they're attacking us or they’re attacking a ship, you need to respond to that," Rubio said.
