Laxman Savadi joins Congress, promised ticket from Athani constituency
Bengaluru: Lakshmana Savadi, former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, has joined the Congress party after being upset over the loss of the BJP ticket from the Athani constituency. Savadi was welcomed to the Congress by the Leader of Opposition of Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah, KPCC president DK Shivakumar, and state Congress in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala at the KPCC office on Queen's Road in the city.
Several other prominent Congress leaders, including KPCC working president B Chandrappa, KPCC campaign committee president MB Patil, former ministers Vinay Kulkarni, Basavaraja Rayareddy, AB Patil, and MLC Channaraja Hattiholi were also present on the occasion. Savadi has also been promised of Congress ticket from Athani constituency for the upcoming Karnataka elections.
Savadi, who arrived in Bangalore from Belgaum on a special flight, went to Siddaramaiah's residence with Randeep Singh Surjewala and D.K. Shiva Kumar in the same car. He later resigned from the primary membership of the BJP party and the council seat.
The move by Savadi is expected to boost the Congress party's chances in the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka.
The development has come as a major blow to the BJP, which has been facing dissent within the party in Karnataka in recent months. With the assembly elections drawing near, the BJP will now have to work harder to retain its hold on the state.
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
