Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda recently vowed that he would develop Dakshina Kannada his home district as done by his predecessors Gowda and Kumaraswamy in case of their home districts. This reveals nothing but the usual characteristic of a BJP leader who is only good at boasting, but fails to achieve anything.
The indiscriminate destruction of nature by man is bound to have drastic consequences in the future and the next generation may have to catch a glimpse of the precious plants and trees only in films or videos. Denuding the court jungle in the heart of the city of all its trees and plants is unpardonable. It is an act sans social responsibility whoever might have executed it just to facilitate construction of a few buildings. The incident has deeply hurt the conscience of nature loving citizens.
If the Mangalore City Corporation is rendered almost inactive these days, then the main reason for the same is the election of a Congress Mayor for Mangalore, despite the BJP being in majority in the House. The common man is the worst affected by this piquant situation.
When Vittal Malekudiya, a post graduate journalism student of Mangalore University who was branded ‘Naxal’ and arrested by the cops, was writing his annual exams at the university as per the court orders, one could notice the handcuffs still in his hands. It is surprising that the University authorities who are the custodians of this student have not objected to this inhuman act of the cops.
Mangalore’s dentist Dr Mitra Hegde who enjoyed enough publicity after claiming herself to be the President’s Dentist and even won the State Rajyotsava Award on that count, is today in a dilemma. The latest twist to this case is that Dr Hegde even went to the extent of tendering an apology just to come out of this tangle.
Dakshina Kannada district is notorious as the Hindutva lab of the Sangh Parivar ; it is the Parivar leadership here which in a way controls the state politics. But ironically DK at present neither has a BJP minister nor does its headquarters Mangalore has a BJP Mayor though the MCC is under the control of the BJP.Shall we call it a mere coincidence or a befitting lesson to the BJP government which had betrayed the common man ?
The double standards pursued by the state government while adhering to the Law of the Land is ample testimony to the fact that there is not much of difference between the erstwhile Yeddyurappa government and the present Sadananda Gowda government.
Usually, whenever a chief minister tenders his resignation, almost all non-officials appointed to various boards, corporations and other positions by him, too follow suit in good administrative trend. However, non-officials who were appointed by Yeddyurappa had set an entirely different trend by not resigning when he quit chief ministership.
Though factionalism is ruling the roost in the ruling BJP which is clearly a divided house between Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda and former CM Yeddyurappa, the stance of the ruling party MLAs of the coastal districts is not yet clear.
There had been no dearth of BJP leaders who during the campaigning for the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha bye polls had claimed that the electorate with all pleasure would vote for their party the moment the name of late VS Acharya was chanted. Even Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda