Won’t budge to Shamanur’s autocracy: M.B. Patil
Vijayapura, October 20: “We will not budge to the autocracy of senior MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa who said he will complain against us to the party high command. Let him give complaint. We will see the next course of action”, said former minister M.B. Patil.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Patil said that Shamanur Shivashankarappa was a senior leader and he has respect towards him. But he said that Vinay Kulkarni had a humiliating defeat. What about his son S.S. Mallikarjun? First he should introspect about his son, he added.
It was not fair to raise the issue of separate Lingayat religion during by-elections. Shamanur Shivashankarappa had joined hands with the seers of Pancha Peethas who were responsible for the defeat of the Congress in the last Assembly election, he alleged.
“Shamanur Shivashankarappa was elected in a constituency which has more than 70,000 Muslim voters. Let him think about the defeat of his son. But in my constituency, I have won though Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally campaigned against me”, he said.
The school records of Shamanur Shivashankarappa, Yeddyurappa, Umesh Katti and Pancha Peetha seers have shown that they were Lingayats. Only 10,000 people have written as Veerashaivas. When S.M. Krishna was the chief minister, MP Prakash had included the word ‘Veerashaiva’ in the software, he said.
If the central government rejected the proposal submitted by the state government on separate Lingayat religion status, they would move the Supreme Court. Now, Shamanur Shivashankarappa has joined hands with Rambhapuri Swamiji. He would discuss all the issues with the high command after November 3, he said.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
