State govt will approach SC like Tamil Nadu if Governor rejects bills: Minister Priyank Kharge
Bengaluru: Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge said on Tuesday that the state government will be forced to fight against the Governor, like the Tamil Nadu government did, if the bills passed by the Karnataka government continued to be rejected by Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot.
The Governor has returned to the government the Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University Bill, which focuses on replacing the Governor as the head of universities, asking for clarifications from the government.
Addressing reporters in the city on Tuesday, Minister Kharge said the government had faced similar rejection from the Governor earlier too. It had also witnessed similar situations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, where the Governor had returned bills passed in the legislature. Admitting that the government would provide the necessary clarifications to Gehlot, Kharge said that, if the Governor was still not convinced, the state government would have to approach the Supreme Court ‘like Tamil Nadu did’.
He accused the Governor of violating the legislature’s decisions and causing a feud between the Governor and the government. He also pointed out that a bill was discussed in the legislature and passed through a voting system.
Kharge, who is spokesperson for the Karnataka government, further alleged that the BJP and the RSS were using the Governor’s office as the branch office of the party and state headquarters of the Sangh. He also accused Governor Gehlot of ‘murdering’ democracy by following the orders of the Central government and overruling the decisions of the Karnataka Legislature.
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Bantwal police arrest two men for illegal sale of narcotics, seize two vehicles, 810 gm ganja
Mangaluru: Bantwal Rural Police have arrested two men who were allegedly attempting to sell narcotics illegally near the National Highway 75 stretch in Hanumanagar of Thumbay in Bantwal taluk on Saturday evening.
The police team, led by Bantwal Rural Sub-inspector Manjunath T, held the operation on being informed that the arrested men, identified as Sameer (31) of Thumbay and Muhammad Asif (35) of Goodinabali, were trying to sell narcotics illegally at the said place. When they reached the place, they are learned to have found two men standing in a suspicious manner beside a car and an auto rickshaw parked on an empty plot near the highway. The policemen caught and questioned the men, who confessed that they had been trying to sell ganja.
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The team, on checking the car, reportedly found 450 gram of the narcotic along with 360 gram in the auto rickshaw. The narcotic and the two vehicles have been seized by the police.
A case has been registered against Sameer and Asif at the Bantwal Rural Police Station, the Department has said in a press statement.
