Smooth law and order is how Kʼtaka got 77000 crore investments in months: Siddaramaiah
CM mentions Vartha Bharatiʼs editorial in his speech
Bengaluru : In a recent statement, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah highlighted the significant investment of ₹77,000 crore in Karnataka within just 9 months of his government coming to power as evidence of the state's smooth law and order situation.
Responding to discussions in the Legislative Assembly regarding the Governor's speech, Siddaramaiah praised the effective implementation of the government's development and welfare schemes. He criticised opposition leader R. Ashok for allegedly ignoring the Governor's speech and falsely claiming a deterioration in law and order.
Siddaramaiah stressed on the direct correlation between capital investment and law and order, citing the substantial investment as indicative of the state's security and stability. He also defended Home Minister Parameshwar's response to Ashok's accusations, labelling the BJP as a party of lies and stating that the people of Karnataka had rejected them for focusing on falsehoods rather than development.
Siddaramaiah further criticised the BJP, pointing out that the party has never come to power in Karnataka through a clear electoral mandate, instead relying on tactics like Operation Kamala to lure MLAs to their side. He challenged the BJP to provide an example of them governing with a clear majority.
Despite facing defeat in the past, Siddaramaiah highlighted his party's acceptance of the people's decision and its commitment to constructive opposition. We never took refuge in lies, he said.
The CM also mentioned that state level Kannada and English newspapers including Vartha Bharati and other media have written and appreciated the Governor's speech and the benefits of the government's guarantee schemes. He said that the opposition parties should make it a habit to at least read the opinions and analyses of the national newspapers and not tell lies without knowing anything.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
