Viral video shows Karnataka minister Somanna assaulting woman
Chamarajanagar(PTI): Karnataka Housing Minister V Somanna was caught up in controversy for allegedly slapping a woman in a village in Gundlupet here when she went with a plea to resolve her grievance.
The minister has not yet reacted to the incident but the woman said Somanna was only consoling her after she tried to prostrate before him with a plea to allot her a government plot.
According to the information received, Somanna, who is the district in-charge minister of Chamarajanagar, had gone to Hangla village in Gundlupet and was taking part in a property document distribution ceremony.
Property documents were given to landless people who were occupying government land for residential purposes but had not secured any ownership of it till now.
During the ceremony, the viral video purportedly showed a woman approaching the minister reportedly pleading him to allot a plot. The minister turned angry after he was shoved due to the unruly crowd and slapped the woman.
However, the minister's office shared a video in which the woman said she only pleaded a plot be granted to her as she was too poor.
"I bowed at his feet with the plea and the minister lifted me consoling me that he would help me but it was publicised that he beat me up," the woman accompanied by her children said in the video.
Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh criticised the minister for his purported conduct.
"What a difference from the way @RahulGandhi began the Karnataka leg of #BharatJodoYatra from the very same Gundlupet on 30th September! This shameless man should be sacked immediately!" Ramesh tweeted.
The Congress MP was referring to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Karnataka from Gundlupet last month, where the incident occurred on Saturday.
K'taka BJP minister V Somanna @VSOMANNA_BJP slaps women who came to tell her grievance.
— Deepak (@Deepak_Ramaiah) October 23, 2022
Is this how @BJP4India treats women ?
Somanna must resign #ResignSomanna #SackSomanna pic.twitter.com/EVPNpzKCY2
ಸೆಪ್ಟೆಂಬರ್ 30ರಂದು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಅದೇ ಗುಂಡ್ಲುಪೇಟೆಯಿಂದ @RahulGandhi ಅವರು #BharatJodoYatra ಅನ್ನು ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ ರೀತಿಗೂ, ಈ ಕೃತ್ಯಕ್ಕೂ ಅಜಗಜಾಂತರ ವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸ!
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) October 23, 2022
ಈ ನಾಚಿಕೆಯಿಲ್ಲದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನ ಕೂಡಲೇ ಸಂಪುಟದಿಂದ ವಜಾಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು! https://t.co/dSFGhGGDMF
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Lucknow Super Giants beat MI by 18 runs in IPL
Mumbai, May 17: Lucknow Super Giants beat Mumbai Indians by 18 runs at Wankhede Stadium on Friday.
Mumbai Indians thus finish last in the 10-team table with only 8 points from 14 games.
Aided by a 109-run partnership between skipper KL Rahul (55 off 41 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (75 off 29 balls), LSG scored a commendable 214 for 6.
The visitors then struck at regular intervals to stop MI at 196 for 6 despite Rohit Sharma's 68 off 38 deliveries and Naman Dhir's reargaurd 62 off 28 balls.
Earlier, Rahul first steadied the innings with Marucs Stoinis (28) after the fall of his opening partner Devdutt Padikkal for a duck and then stitched a century stand with West Indian Pooran, who clobbered eight maximums and five boundaries.
Spinner Piyush Chawla (3/29) and Sri Lankan pacer Nuwan Thusara (3/28) emerged the most successful Mumbai Indians bowlers, grabbing three wickets each.
Brief scores:
Lucknow Super Giants 214 for 6 in 20 overs (Nicholas Pooran 75, KL Rahul 55; Piyush Chawla 3/29, Nuwan Thushara 3/28).
Mumbai Indians 196 for 6 in 20 overs (Rohit Sharma 68, Naman Dhir 62 not out; Ravi Bishnoi 2/37).
