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Tag: Karnataka Politics

  • Anupama to contest from Kaup in Udupi district

    Former police officer Anupama Shenoy announced that she would contest the Assembly elections from her native place Kaup in Udupi district.

    Speaking to presspersons, she announced the first list of 15 members from her Bharatiya Janashakti Congress who will be contesting the elections. She said the EC has approved her party’s symbol as the ladies finger.

  • Congress candidates' list going viral on social media is fake

    Bengaluru, Apr 10: A list of Congress candidates for the upcoming Karnataka elections is doing the rounds in social media, especially on WhatsApp. As it turns out, the list is fake.

    A document titled ‘1st list of INC candidates’ went viral on social media on Tuesday April 10. However, the Congress has clarified that the list was fake.
    Chief minister Siddaramaiah himself took to Twitter to clarfiy the same, stating that the list was a product of the ‘fake news factory’.
    “I am told a list of Congress candidates for Karnataka Election is under circulation. The AICC has not approved the list of candidates yet. The “list” under circulation is fake. It has been done to create confusion. Please don’t patronize products of the #FakeNews factory.” he tweeted.

    AICC general secretary Madhu Goud Yaskhi speaking to reporters in New Delhi cautioned that a fake list of Congress candidates containing AICC seal was being circulated in social media. “We will file a complaint with the police regarding the matter. We have only finished the meeting of the screening committee. The Congress central election committee (CEC) is yet to meet,” he said.

    He also put the blame on BJP for the fake list. “This is the handiwork of the BJP IT cell. They are experts in coming up with fake news. Even Smriti Irani’s certificate is fake. Modi’s certificate is also fake. Such fake people have created this fake list,” he said.

    Source: Daijiworld 

  • Election posters released in Udupi

    Udupi Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis on Monday released posters and hoarding designs in Udupi depicting local culture and diversity to attract voters to the polling booths on May 12.

    Some of them have slogans in Kundapur Kannada. One of them read: “Aentha kelsidru vot hakudond marukaga” (However engaged, one should not forget to vote). Another in Tulu read: “Vot paadara undu. Bega poyiye” (Let us march fast to vote).

    The Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Committee of Udupi has brought out 15 such posters.

    Meanwhile, speaking at an awareness programme on the functioning of EVMs and VVPATs at Udupi Bar Council, the Deputy Commissioner said that all 1,400 machines have been tested in the presence of representatives of political parties. She said that the representatives would be allowed to conduct mock polling to test the machines that cannot be hacked.

  • FIR filed against minister Pramod Madhwaraj

    A case has been registered against Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj for violating the Model Code of Conduct with his reported statement in a section of the media that the State government would give ₹ 25 lakh and a government job to P. Gururaja who won the silver medal in the 56 kg category in weightlifting at the ongoing 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, on April 5.


    Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis said here on Sunday that Mr. Madhwaraj’s statement had appeared in some newspapers and Kannada news channels. Hence, a case had been registered for violation of Model Code of Conduct at the Udupi Town Police Station, she said.



    The personnel of the Static Surveillance Team had confiscated a total of ₹ 4.35 lakh of unaccounted for money at Sasthan on April 6. Assistant Commissioner of Kundapur Sub Division Bhoobalan said that an amount of ₹ 3.65 lakh and ₹ 70,000 had been confiscated from the occupants of two vehicles at the check-post at Sasthan. The people carrying the money did not provide any proper or valid documents for the possession for money. An amount of ₹ 93,000, which was unaccounted for, was confiscated from a wine shop in Udupi on Saturday night, he said.