Police pick up Cong leader in Bengaluru over 'PayCM' campaign
Bengaluru (PTI): The Bengaluru police picked up for questioning the former social media cell chief of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee B R Naidu in connection with the party's 'PayCM' campaign targeting Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Learning about the incident, the Congress state chief D K Shivakumar rushed to the High Grounds police station where the policemen took him.
Speaking to reporters near the police station, Shivakumar termed the action as "high-handedness." The party claimed that the police picked up Naidu from his house around midnight last.
He also warned that 100 legislators will take part in pasting the 'PayCM' posters at public spaces on Friday.
The Congress on Wednesday launched 'PayCM 40 % accepted here' campaign, a QR code with Bommai's face. Such posters were pasted on walls in several parts of the city.
On scanning the QR code, people were directed to a website "40percentsarkara.com", put up by the Congress over charges of 40 per cent commission in government contracts levelled by a contractors' body.
The party also tweeted the QR code and urged the people to register their complaints of corruption against the State government by scanning it.
Bommai on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the 'PayCM' campaign, calling it a "conspiracy" and an effort to tarnish his and the state's image.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
