Man sneaks into Karnataka assembly posing as MLA, arrested
Bengaluru, July 7: A 72-year-old man posing as an MLA sneaked into the Karnataka assembly here on Friday and was arrested only after spending 15 minutes wandering in the House amidst the legislators.
The man identified as Thipperudra entered the assembly impersonating Sagar MLA Belur Gopalakrishna, police sources said.
He walked around for a while and sat on Devadurga MLA Karemma's seat for about 15 minutes, they added.
When Gurmitkal JD(S) MLA Sharanagouda Kandakur grew suspicious about him, he called the marshals of the House.
"On the day Siddaramaiah presented his historic budget, this historic incident too occurred where for the first time in the Karnataka assembly's history a man sneaked into the Karnataka assembly," Kandakur quipped.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Division) R Srinivas Gowda said the intruder gained entry into the assembly by identifying himself as an MLA.
"The marshals held him after confirming that he was an impersonator. He was handed over to the Vidhana Soudha police. We are interrogating him to find out the motive," Gowda told reporters.
A police officer said it was difficult for the marshals deployed at the assembly to identify the legislators as there are many new faces.
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Bengal polls: RG Kar victim's mother files nomination as BJP candidate from Panihati
Kolkata (PTI): Ratna Debnath, mother of the raped-murdered RG Kar hospital doctor and the BJP candidate from Panihati, filed her nomination papers on Thursday.
She was accompanied by senior BJP leader and former Union minister Smriti Irani and district party leaders.
Speaking to reporters after filing her nomination, she said her sole aim is to oust the TMC regime in West Bengal, which, she alleged, would ensure women's safety in the state and prevent a recurrence of incidents like the RG Kar case.
Nearly a year and a half after the brutal killing of her 26-year-old daughter inside a locked seminar room of the state-run hospital in August 2024, Debnath agreed to contest the polls on a BJP ticket from her hometown Panihati after being approached by the party "to bring to light the truth behind the crime".
She is pitted against TMC's Tirthankar Ghosh and CPI(M)'s Kalatan Dasgupta.
