Siddaramaiah visits Srinivas Prasad's house in Mysuru for talks
Mysuru: In a significant political development, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah visited the house of his political rival, Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency MP V. Srinivas Prasad, and held talks.
Siddaramaiah paid a surprise visit to MP Srinivas Prasad's house at Jayalakshmipuram on Saturday morning to discuss the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
On the 17th of last month, MP V. Srinivas Prasad announced his retirement from politics. Following this, his brother Ramaswamy, his son Bharat Ramaswamy, and supporters from Chamarajanagar and Mysuru district joined the Congress. Siddaramaiah's visit to MP Srinivas Prasad's house has created a sensation in the political circle.
V. Srinivas Prasad, an influential Dalit leader of Old Mysuru, was the revenue minister in Siddaramaiah's cabinet in 2013 but was later dropped. He then resigned from the cabinet and contested from the BJP, but was defeated in the Nanjangudu by-election. In the 2018 elections, he defeated his son-in-law Harsh Vardhan from the BJP.
Despite announcing his retirement from electoral politics, V. Srinivas Prasad contested from the Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency in 2019 and won against the late R. Dhruvanarayan.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, speaking to the media after meeting with MP V. Srinivas Prasad, stated, "I am a long-time friend of V. Srinivas Prasad. He joined the BJP in the changed political scenario, while I stayed in the Congress party. Now that he has retired from politics, I did not get to meet him after his political retirement. So, I visited him today and inquired about his health."
Siddaramaiah clarified that politics was not discussed during the meeting. He mentioned that Prasad had already stated that he would not support any party, so there was no discussion on political matters. Siddaramaiah said he only asked for his sympathy for the Congress party during the meeting.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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