Voter ID case
‘BJP candidate conspires to fix Cong MLA’
Bengaluru, June 12: Two voters lodged a complaint against BJP candidate PM Muniraju Gowda in the Nandini Layout Police station alleging that the BJP leader has conspired to fix Congress MLA Munirathna in the voter ID storage case.
R Kumar (39) and C Anand (49) have lodged complaints separately saying that Muniraju Gowda had collected thousands of voter IDs from the voters. Those voters IDs were found in the Jalahalli SLV Park View apartment. Muniraju Gowda had threatened them to admit that the followers of Munirathna had collected the voter IDs, they alleged.
Muniraju Gowda had conducted Rangoli competition at Laggere and in the name of distributing prizes, he had distributed gold and silver ornaments and cash. In order to make sure that all the participants are from his constituency, he had collected more than thousand voter IDs, Kumar said in his complaint.
Muniraju Gowda had said that he would contest the election from the BJP and asked votes for him. In return, he promised of giving valuable gifts and returning of their voter ID cards on the day of voting near the polling station. When he opposed this, Gowda had threatened him, Kumar said.
“When the voter IDs were found in the apartment, Muniraju Gowda contacted us and asked us to mislead the police saying that the followers of Munirathna have collected the ID cards. Even he threatened us of dire consequences if we spilled the beans. So, we were silent”, Kumar said.
When people came to know that Muniraju Gowda had misused the voter IDs, they had been to the police station to give a complaint against the BJP leader. But the police declined to take the complaint, he said in his complaint.
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Karnataka govt to strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy, after HC directive
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad has said that the government will strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy across all sectors at the earliest, following the High Court directive.
The High Court of Karnataka had recently directed the state government to "strictly and faithfully" implement the menstrual leave policy, pending formal enactment of the proposed legislation.
"I welcome the directive issued by the Karnataka High Court in support of our state government's ambitious menstrual leave policy," Lad said.
The state government has taken firm steps to implement the menstrual leave policy comprehensively, and as a model to the country, he said in a post on 'X' on Thursday.
"In line with the court's opinion that menstrual leave is a matter of women's dignity, justice, and humane recognition of their lived realities, we will strictly implement the paid menstrual leave policy--equivalent to one day per month, or 12 days per year--across all sectors at the earliest," he added.
The court had said that in the interregnum, it shall be incumbent upon the state to ensure effective operationalisation of the policy through the issuance of suitable guidelines, circulars, and administrative instructions, as may be necessary to secure its uniform, consistent, and rigorous implementation across all sectors.
The court issued the directive while hearing on a petition filed by 41-year-old Chandravva Hanumant Gokavi, who works in a hotel in Mudalgi of Gokak taluk in Belagavi district, before the Dharwad bench, seeking implementation of the November 20, 2025, order of the government providing one-day menstrual leave for all working women.
