Bengaluru: Freedom fighter H. S Doreswamy  has called for people's movement against 17 rebel MLAs of Congress and JD(s) who resigned from the assembly earlier last month to destabilise the coalition government in the state.

Claiming that the rebel MLAs resigned for the greed of power and money, Doreswamy urged people of the state to not re-elect them to power.

He recalled the time when people would invest in the candidates who laid their lives for the country, and added that today millionaires are contest elections to increase their wealth.

Doreswamy alleged that Modi, Amit Shah and Yediyurappa were behind the resignations of the rebel MLAs.

Rajya Sabha MP Dr. L Hanumaiya added that Modi and Shah have been successful in implementing One Nation, One Party, One Language and One Religion concept and that anyone trying to oppose it is suppressed using CBI and IT Department.

Senior litterateur Marula Siddappa, S.G. Siddaramaiah, former minister Lalita Nayak, Shriram Reddy, YSV Data, Sudarshan, labourers leader Maruthi Malpade, senior journalist Dinesh Amin mattu, U. Basavaraju, Muneer Katipalla and Ananth Nayak were present in the program.

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New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI): The iconic Taj Mahal in Agra earned the "highest income" through the sale of tickets among the ASI-protected monuments from FY19-20 to FY23-24, according to data shared by the government.

Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat shared the data in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha.

He was asked the amount that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has received from selling entry tickets to various monuments in the last five years, year-wise and monument-wise; and the monuments that have received the highest income through selling entry tickets in the last five years.

In his response, the minister shared the data in a tabular form for cycles of financial years ranging from FY19-20 to FY23-24.

According to the data, Taj Mahal earned the top slot for all five years.

The Mughal-era architectural wonder was commissioned by Emperor Shah Jehan in the 17th century and it is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

In FY19-20, the Agra Fort in Agra and Qutub Minar in Delhi were in the second and third positions.

In FY20-21, the Group of Monuments Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu and Sun Temple, Konark were in the second and third positions. In FY23-24, Qutub Minar and Red Fort of Delhi were in the second and third positions.