My govt will be stable and make Karnataka no.1 state: Kumaraswamy
Bengaluru, Jun 27: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Thursday asserted that the Congress-JD(S) government led by him will be stable and would work towards making Karnataka the country's number one state.
Alleging that the BJP during the last one year had made several attempts to topple the government, he said they would not be successful.
"Trust this government...don't have any doubts. I have all the information about the ways in which our old friends (BJP) have made efforts to remove this government for the last one year, but they cannot be successful in this," he said.
Addressing an event at Ujalamba village in Bidar, he said "This government will be stable. For the next four years this government will not only be stable, but will work for the all-round development of the state, and take it to number one position in the country."
Kumaraswamy is in Ujalamba village as part of his 'Grama Vastavaiya' (overnight stay in villages) programme aimed at making the administration more effective.
Hitting out at the BJP for criticising the programme, the chief minister challenged them to hear issues of the people and take petitions from them for a day.
"Grama Vastavya is not easy. I want to tell those criticising Grama Vastavya- for one day from morning till evening let them hear the issues of people and take petitions from them, then you will understand the difficulty," he said.
Recently, state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa had dismissed Kumaraswamy's 'Grama Vastavaiya' programme as "drama" and "publicity gimmick" and said people need relief from the "daily street fight" of the Congress and JDS leaders.
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Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
Dubai (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.
The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel just last month.
State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. Among the dead was Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60.
With Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Early Monday morning, Turkish authorities released what they described as drone footage showing what appeared to be a fire in the wilderness that they “suspected to be wreckage of helicopter.”
The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire some 20 kilometres south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain.
Footage released by the IRNA early Monday showed what the agency described as the crash site, across a steep valley in a green mountain range. Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: “There it is, we found it.”
