Left parties oppose Karad’s visit to Vijayawada
The Hindu
They say Union govt. has not allocated funds to State for last 8 years
The Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) jointly organised a protest opposing the visit of Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad to the city on Sunday.
‘Go back Kishanrao Karad’, ‘down down Modi government’, rented the air as the leaders staged a protest to highlight the injustice meted out to Andhra Pradesh in the recently presented Union Budget.
A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.