Siddaramaiah seeks to know 'reason for terrorist attacks during elections'
_vb_74.jpeg)
Bengaluru(PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday sought to know the "reason for terrorist attacks in the country during elections."
The chief minister's statement has drawn a sharp reaction from the opposition BJP.
"What is the reason for terrorist attacks in the country during elections? Siddaramaiah asked on 'X' on Wednesday, and he also shared media coverage of his statement on the incident.
Siddaramaiah's remark came after the completion of the second and final phase of voting in Bihar on Tuesday, and the blast in Delhi, which occurred the day prior to voting.
BJP Karnataka unit President B Y Vijayendra termed the statements of Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders "irresponsible, insensitive, and low-level politics."
On Tuesday, speaking to reporters in Mysuru, the CM, while responding to a question about blasts in the country during elections, had said, "there should be no bomb blasts in the country, innocent people have died."
He had also said that it has happened during the election and it needs to be looked into.
Replying to a question, Siddaramaiah had also said that there was a possibility of the blast incident having its impact on the Bihar polls. "It will be against the BJP."
Minister Priyank Kharge on Tuesday had called Amit Shah the "most incompetent Home Minister" in independent India and demanded his resignation and he alleged intelligence failure for the blast.
Vijayendra underscoring that the probe into the blast was going on, he said that the statements were not only condemnable, but also alarming.
It is a "tragedy" for the state and a "misfortune" for the country that the Congress leaders are indulging in "low-level politics", even at a sensitive time when the entire country should speak in one voice.
In a social media post, the BJP leader said, "It is truly alarming that issues like national security, civilian casualties, sacrifices of our soldiers, and national honor are just political weapons for the Congress party."
The country has not forgotten that even after the horrific Pulwama attack in 2019, Congress leaders made statements that "helped Pakistan's propaganda," Vijayendra alleged.
He further alleged that the Chief Minister's statement now was also a "continuation of the same anti-national legacy" of the Congress. He demanded that the Chief Minister must immediately withdraw his statement and said that like people of Bihar, the people of the state of Karnataka will also give a befitting reply to the Congress party.
"This is not a matter of party politics; for true patriotic Indians, the country is always first, everything else comes later," the BJP leader added.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
