Modi had asked Deve Gowda to go to old age home: Siddaramaiah
Hubballi, May 2: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised JDS supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda only to get political mileage in the Assembly elections.
Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, he said that in the last Lok Sabha elections, Modi had asked Deve Gowda to go to old age home. But now, Modi has praised Deve Gowda. Going by these developments, it is certain that both JDS and BJP have mutual understanding in the election. But they could not defeat him in Chamundeshwari constituency. He would win the constituency as the voters would bless him, he said.
Modi has been calling them as 2+1 and 1+1. Didn’t he contest two constituencies in the last Lok Sabha elections? Is Modi blind towards the candidature of BJP leader Govind Karajol and his son, CM Udasi’s son, Shashikala Jolle and her husband, Umesh Katti and his brother, Yeddyurappa and his son Raghavendra, he asked.
BJP state president and chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa has been saying that he would send Siddaramaiah into jail if he came to power. He does not have a common sense on law. He was not facing any criminal charges. BJP would not come to power in the state and Yeddyurappa would not become the chief minister. Yeddyurappa is fearing about the defeat of his party due to which he has been saying that he will be the next chief minister, he ridiculed.
The people have not yet forgotten the developments happened during the BJP ruling. For no cost, the people would not give the power once again to those who looted the state. He had conducted paadayatre against Reddy brothers. Anand Singh had been to jail. But the charges were not proved against him. Both Anand Sing and Sathish Sail would not be convicted, he said.
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'Someone must be held accountable': HC converts civil suit on Goa nightclub tragedy into PIL
Panaji (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Monday converted a civil suit against Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) saying "someone has to be held accountable" for the tragedy in which 25 people were killed.In a stern observation, Goa bench of the High Court of Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ashish Chavan said the local panchayat had "failed to take suo motu cognisance" of the club and had taken "no action despite complaints."
The division bench directed the Goa government to file a detailed reply on the permissions granted to the nightclub.
The High Court, while fixing January 8 as the next date of hearing, pointed out that commercial operations were continuing in the structure despite it having been served a demolition order.
The original petition was filed after the December 6 tragedy by Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Sunil Divkar, the owners of the land on which the nightclub was operating.
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Advocate Rohit Bras de Sa, the lawyer representing the petitioner, was made amicus curiae in the matter and has been asked to file a detailed affidavit in the matter.
In their petition, Amonkar and Divkar highlighted "the alarming pattern of statutory violations that have remained inadequately addressed despite multiple complaints, inspections, show-cause notices, and even a demolition order".
They contended that these violations posed "immediate threats to public safety, ecological integrity, and the rule of law in the state of Goa."
Investigations by multiple agencies into the nightclub fire have revealed various irregularities, including lack of permissions to operate the nightclub.
The Goa police arrested five managers and staff members of the club, while co-owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra have been detained in Thailand after they fled the country.
