Why is Karnataka home minister silent about attack on party colleague, asks Congress
Bengaluru: The Congress has criticized the BJP on social media for not speaking up against the attack on its own Dalit legislator M P Kumaraswamy recently, although the MLA himself has expressed displeasure for the silence.
Mudigere legislator Kumaraswamy was attacked by the people of Kundoor village on Sunday. The locals, who had been protesting with the body of a victim of elephant attack in the village, expressed their anger over the legislator for not taking measures to curb the elephant menace. They were also apparently upset that Kumaraswamy arrived late Sunday evening although they had been protesting since morning.
The BJP MLA said on Wednesday that he was disappointed that Home Minister Araga Jnanendra had not called him at least out of courtesy to inquire about his welfare after the assault. “The chief minister and even former chief minister B S Yediyurappa have called and asked me about my condition, but the home minister has not,” Kumaraswamy said and alleged that he was being sidelined as he was from a Dalit community.
In its tweet in relation to the matter, the Congress on Thursday said that if no member of the BJP had publicly shown dismay at the attack of a colleague, if the home minister had neither called Kumaraswamy nor apologized for the failure of his department, it would only show how little the BJP respected Dalits.
“A BJP legislator has himself said that, given the level of corruption in the Home Department, one could pay and get a desired posting. Does Jnanendra play a role in such corrupt activities? Why else is he silent now? Why else is the BJP silent regardless of the holler raised by an MLA of the party regarding the attack on him?” the Congress has asked on Twitter.
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— Karnataka Congress (@INCKarnataka) November 24, 2022
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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.
