It’s not fair to raise voice against Shivakumar: Shamanur Shivashankarappa
Separate Lingayat religion issue
Davangere, October 19: All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha president Dr. Shamanur Shivashankarappa said that “Minister D.K. Shivakumar has apologized for dividing the Veerashaiva Lingayat community in the name of separate Lingayat religion by the previous government. But former ministers M.B. Patil and Vinay Kulkarni should not have raised voice against Shivakumar”.
Speaking to reporters here on Friday, Shivashankarappa said that “We are against to any efforts of dividing the society. At least now, these two leaders should stop dividing Veerashaiva Lingayat community. Adopt the ideals what Basavanna said in your life. We should not have ego based on position and wealth. M.B. Patil should rectify himself and have control over his words”, he said.
D.K. Shivakumar disclosed the truth that the Congress has seen the setback in the election due to Lingayat issue. Siddaramaiah had tried to divide the Veerashaiva Lingayat community yielding to the pressure from M.B. Patil and Vinay Kulkarni. Though the community has more than 2 crore population in the state, it was shown as 70 lakh in the caste census. Except the sub-castes, the Veerashaiva Lingayat community has more than 25 per cent of total population of the state, which means, the Veerashaiva Lingayat community was in first place followed by Vokkaliga community, he said.
Mahasabha National Vice President Athani S. Veeranna was present.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
