Karnataka Home Minister rebuts BJP claims regarding murders of Sangh Parivar activists
Bengaluru : "The BJP leaders are raising a clamour that 22 Sangh Parivar activists have been murdered in the state. But eight of them were killed owing to personal enmity," said State Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy.
Speaking to reporters at Vidhana Saudha on January 1, Monday the Home Minister said the BJP leaders are always silent about the killings over personal enmity.
He stated that the Congress government will be providing full co-operation to the CBI probe into the Paresh Mestha case of Uttara Kannada district.
No untoward incident : On the New Year celebrations in Bengaluru, the Minister said there has been no untoward incidents and that the police had discharged their duties efficiently. Young men had gathered in large numbers this time, he said adding action has been taken against some people for liquor consumption. Some women who too were under the influence of alcohol were dropped home, he added.
The Minister said a case has already been filed against BJP workers on charges of attempting assault on Mahadayi activist Veeresh Sobaradmutta.
On the Hindutva rants of the BJP and Sangh Parivar, the Home Minister said it was done only for the sake of politics. " We too are practising Hindu Dharma with dedication," the minister said.
On Shobha Karandalje's comment that "Let the CM arrest me if he has courage," the Minister said no one is above law. "Neither me nor the CM can go to arrest her. The Police will act as per the law," he added.
State DGP Neelamani Raju, Bengaluru Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar, DGP Praveen Sood, Senior officials A M Prasad, M N Reddy and others conveyed their New Year wishes to the Home Minister by offering bouquets.
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India, China decide to resume Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI): India and China on Monday decided to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra as the two sides agreed to take certain people-centric steps to "stabilise and rebuild" ties.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said this following Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's talks with his Chinese counterpart Sun Weidong in Beijing.
It said the two sides also agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries.
"As agreed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at their meeting in Kazan in October, the two sides reviewed the state of India-China bilateral relations comprehensively and agreed to take certain people-centric steps to stabilize and rebuild ties," the MEA said.
"In this context, the two sides decided to resume the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra in the summer of 2025," it said.
The MEA said the two sides also agreed to hold an early meeting of the India-China expert level mechanism to discuss resumption of provision of hydrological data and other cooperation pertaining to trans-border rivers.
It said the two sides agreed to take appropriate measures to further promote and facilitate people-to-people exchanges, including media and think-tank interactions.
"They agreed in principle to resume direct air services between the two countries; the relevant technical authorities on the two sides will meet and negotiate an updated framework for this purpose at an early date," the MEA said.
