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MLAs pushing relatives into the Legislative Council prevalent across North Karnataka districts
The trend of MLAs trying to push their relatives into the Legislative Council elections continues unabated. It seems to be prevalent across North Karnataka.
On Monday, the Congress released its list of candidates for the Council polls from the local bodies constituencies. Among others, it included the names of Bheemanagouda Patil from Bidar, Sharanegouda Bayyapur from Raichur and Channaraj Hattiholi from Belagavi.
Bheemanagouda Patil is the third brother of the influential Humnabad Patil clan to enter politics. The patriarch, Basavaraj Patil Humnabad, had served as a Minister in S.M. Krishna’s Cabinet. The eldest brother Rajashekar Patil is an MLA and another brother Chandrashekar Patil is an MLC.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).