Met and discussed with DK Shivakumar on how Congress can win Lok Sabha elections: Shettar
Hubballi: Congress leader Jagadish Shettar has said that a discussion was held with Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar at his residence in Badami on Wednesday regarding winning the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Addressing reporters after the meeting, Shettar said that Shivakumar was happy with the party organization in North Karnataka.
“We mainly discussed about preparing for elections, including panchayat elections and we shared ideas on how the party could strengthen itself,” said the former Chief Minister.
Shettar, while expressing confidence on being supported by the entire party, clarified that the possibility of fielding him as the Congress candidate from the constituency was not discussed at the meeting on Wednesday.
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DMK sacks TN Minister Ponmudy from party post following remarks on Shaivism-Vaishnavism
Chennai (PTI): Senior DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Minister K Ponmudy was on Friday removed from a key party post in the wake of a row over his remarks on Shaivism and Vaishnavism that drew widespread criticism, including from DMK MP Kanimozhi.
DMK President and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced that Ponmudy was being "relieved from the party's deputy general secretary post."
Stalin made the announcement in a statement, but did not attribute any reasons for the action.
The move came close on the heels of the minister's apparently distasteful remarks leading to a controversy, with the opposition BJP demanding Ponmudy's sacking from the cabinet.
A video of the minister making the purported remarks in the context of a sex worker has gone viral. There was no immediate response from Ponmudy, the state Forest minister.
"Minister Ponmudy continuing in his post is shameful.... CM Stalin, will you order Ponmudy's arrest," Narayanan Thirupathy, Vice-President of the BJP's TN unit said in a social media post.
He has maligned the women of Tamil Nadu with his comments, the BJP leader alleged.
Kanimozhi also hit out at her party colleague.
She said, "The recent speech of minister Ponmudy is not acceptable." "For whatever reason he had spoken, such vulgar words are condemnable," she said in a post on X.
Thirupathy welcomed Kanimozhi criticising Ponmudy.
Ponmudy had earlier courted controversy, linking north Indians with selling pani puri.
Taking a dig at those who insist jobs will be available for those who learn Hindi, he had wondered who were selling pani puri in the city (Coimbatore) now, an obvious reference to the predominantly Hindi-speaking vendors involved in the trade.
