Intellectuals should be controlled: Union Minister Hegde
Bengaluru, June 17: Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde said that the leftist intellectuals, who have made their foolishness as their capital and kept their intellect for sale, should be controlled in the country.
Releasing a book ‘Hindutva’, a translated version of Veera Savarkar book into Kannada and published by Samrudha Sahitya at Suchitra Film Society here on Sunday, Hegde said that the intellectuals have been trying to tarnish the image of Hindutva. The intellectuals are good to see when they apply paint or wear mask. Once their mask is removed, they could not be seen. They have sold themselves to the foreign money and trying to defame the Hindutva, he said.
Hindus were not migrants. They were born in the same land. Hindu culture and Hindutva was one of the best lifestyle in the world. So, intellectuals need not raise hue and cry about this. Those intellectuals who do not know anything about this culture and history speak as they want, he said.
Today’s Ph.D is copy and paste
Hegde said that today’s Ph.D is just copy and paste process. But Savarkar did not do that. It should be taken to the people. Unfortunately, the intellectuals who are sleeping with their own intelligence should know about this. This book is the need of the hour, he said.
Hindu means insult!
“Christian can call themselves as Christians. Muslims can say Muslims. Shouldn’t we call ourselves as Hindus? Intellectuals feel happy to call themselves as secular. But when we call ourselves as Hindus, they say that we are insulting the Constitution”, he said.
Write as you like it
Media people might write that Hegde does not know pronunciation. They highlight that issue tomorrow. Moreover, they may say that Hegde pronounced ‘capacity’ as ‘capatity’. It is their ‘capatity’ to write in their style. Let them write whatever they want, he ridiculed.
Let media criticize
“My words may not reach all the audience in the hall. But those words will come in the media. If media praise me, people ask ‘have you adjusted with the media. So, let the media continue to criticize me”, he said.
Columnist Rohith Chakrathirtha, poet MN Vyasa Rao, writer GB Harish and others were present.
I won’t yield to threat
“I am from the Vishakantha cult. Media should report criticizing me. I will consider it as adoration. I am a Hindu and I won’t surrender to any threats. I am not the son of cowards to stop speaking like this”.
-Ananth Kumar Hegde, Union Minister
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U'khand: Child among 4 killed, 23 hurt as bus falls into deep gorge in Bhimtal
Nainital, Dec 25: Four people, including a woman and a child, died and 23 got injured after a roadways bus fell into a 1,500 ft deep gorge in Bhimtal's Saldi area on Wednesday.
The roadways bus with 27 people on board, including the driver and the conductor bus, was coming from Pithoragarh, Kumaon Commissioner Deepak Rawat told reporters.
Four deaths have been confirmed. The injured have been brought in ambulances to Sushila Tiwari Hospital in Haldwani, he said.
Those killed have been identified as Khadak Singh (55), his wife Ganga Dhami (48), Surendra Singh Dharmasattu (58) and Daksh Pant (6), an official said.
They were from Dharchula, Pithoragarh and Berinag respectively.
"The locals were the first to learn about the incident as is often the case. Even I came to know about it from locals," Rawat said.
Most of the injured are in the general ward but some of them are also likely to be shifted to the ICU, he said.
The vehicle plunged into a 1,500 ft deep gorge, Bhowali Circle Officer Sumit Pandey said.
The injured were first rushed to the Community Health Centre in Bhimtal from where they were referred to higher centres. Some of them are in critical condition.
Relief and rescue operations were launched with the help of locals, he said.
It was difficult for the fire department and SDRF teams to pull the bodies and the injured out of the gorge as the dept to which the bus had fallen was 1,500 feet, Pandey said.
They were pulled out of the ditch with the help of ropes, he said.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed grief over the accident and instructed the district administration to carry out the relief and rescue operations expeditiously.
He announced a financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased.
An assistance of Rs 3 lakh will be given to the seriously injured and Rs 15,000-25,000 to those who sustained minor injuries, he said.
Out of Rs 10 lakh to be paid to the families of those who died in the accident Rs 5 lakh will be given by Uttarakhand Transport Corporation, Rs 2 lakh from Road Safety Fund and Rs 3 lakh from Chief Minister's Discretionary Fund.
