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Followers of KRPP welcome party’s Ballari city candidate Lakshmiaruna Reddy in Ballari on Wednesday | EXPRESS
Pressure on BJP, Cong as
Reddy fields wife in Ballari
Aruni to contest against brother-in-law Somashekhara Reddy
K I R A N B A L A N N A N A V A R @ Ballari
A DAY after former minister
Gali Janardhana Reddy an-
nounced the party Kalyana
Rajya Pra g ati Paksha’s
(KKRPP) Ballari city candi-
date in Ballari, ticket aspir-
ants from Congress and BJP
have started putting pressure
on the party seniors to an-
nounce the party candidates
as soon as possible.
Lakshmi Aruna Reddy, wife
of Janardhana Reddy, will be
contesting from Ballari city with
a KRPP ticket. The seat is cur-
rently headed by Reddy’s older
brother MLA Somashekara Red-
dy. There have been 15 applica-
tions for the seat of Ballari city
from the Congress party, but
former minister Divakar Babu,
Anil Lad and Bharath Reddy are
the front runners. While Gali So-
mashekara Reddy, brother of
Satish
THURSDAY
Janardhana Reddy, is confident
of contesting the elections in the
same constituency, the party
workers say there has been no
confirmation on this from the
party high command.
“We need at least four months
to prepare for the elections. Con-
gress is sure of winning the seat
and the number of aspirants is
testimonial of that. There are 15
Congress ticket aspirants for the
Ballari seat. Hence, we are re-
questing our state leaders to an-
nounce the candidate’s name,”
said a Congress ticket aspirant in
Ballari city.
Meanwhile, Somashekara
Reddy has said that he will never
withdraw his participation from
the upcoming assembly elections
from Ballari city. “It was an unex-
Congress is sure of winning the seat and the number of aspirants is
testimonial of that. There are 15 Congress ticket aspirants for the
Ballari seat — A Congress Ballari ticket aspirant
02 02 2023
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pected decision from my brother
Janardhana Reddy. His close
friend Minister B Sriramulu and
I had requested him to not an-
nounce any new political party
and wait for the BJP’s high-com-
mand meeting, however he
formed a new party,” said So-
mashekara Reddy,
“I will get a ticket from the
BJP party for the upcoming
election from Ballari city and
my sister in-law’s participation
is healthy competition. Even if
I don’t get ticket from the BJP, I
will participate as an independ-
ent candidate. There is no
chance of any compromise in
the elections. I am hoping the
BJP will soon announce the
candidates for the assembly
elections,” he added.
disappointing as it is not beneficial KPCC
for the middle class and the poor working prez
Vedike demands special grants for NK
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE en to the central government
@ Belagavi to resume all cancelled flight
services from Belagavi air-
DEMANDING special prior- port. A proposal to upgrade
ity for the development of the Belagavi airport as an in-
the districts of North Karna- ternational airport should be
taka (NK) in the current presented before the central
budget, the Karnataka Rak- KRV activists stage a protest at Rani Chennamma Circle in Belagavi on Wednesday. government. A fund of Rs 2
shana Vedike (KRV) activists crore should be announced in
staged a protest at Rani sion to shift the State-level of- Kar nataka should be an- the budget every year for
Chennamma circle here on fices to Suvarna Vidhana Soud- nounced to eliminate the dis- grand Rajyotsava celebrations
Wednesday and submitted a ha in Belagavi should be crimination against them. The in Belagavi, the memorandum
memorandum addressed to announced in the State budget. government should announce said.
the Chief Minister Basavaraj One thousand new buses a scheme to provide loans at KRV district president Deep-
Bommai through the Deputy should be announced for all the zero percent rate of interest for ak Gudaganatti, leaders Ma-
Commissioner of Belagavi. districts of North Karnataka. the higher education of women hadev Talwar, Suresh Gavan-
In the memorandum, the A special package of Rs 500 in the budget. navar, Ganesh Rokade, Ramesh
KRV demanded that the deci- crore for each district of North A delegation should be tak- Yaragannavar, were present.
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Sugar factory told not to lift water from river Academia, industry
KALABURAGI: The Karnataka Neeravari Nigama Niyamitha (KNN
Ltd) has instructed N S L Sugars Ltd situated at Bhusnoor of Aland
taluk to not lift water from Amarja River during summer from
February to June. Executive Engineer of KNN Ltd Kalaburagi has
laud push for AI
written a letter to the manager of N S L Sugars Ltd on Monday B A L A C H A U H A N @ Bengaluru was a timely and good move.
(January 30) cautioning the company of consequences. ENS “AI is a thrust area for which
THE Budget announcement on there are applications in mul-
Air Commodore Nene takes command setting up of three centres of tiple sectors, from space, de-
excellence (COE) for Artificial fence and security to data,
of Bidar Air Force Station Intelligence (AI) at top educa- communication, health, agri-
BIDAR: Air Commodore Abhijeet Nene took over the command of tional institutions has received culture, transportation and
Air Force Station in Bidar on Wednesday. Air Commodore Abhijeet overwhelming response from smart cities etc. India should
Nene was commissioned into the Indian Air Force on June 21, 1993 academia and industry. do deep research and come
as a pilot in the Fighter Stream. He is a Cat ‘A’ Qualified Flying Finance Minister Nirmala out with some more indige-
Instructor, with over 4,500 flying hours. ENS Sitharaman, presenting the nous algorithms which will
Union Budget, said, “For realis- lead to more Intellectual Prop-
ing the vision of ‘Make AI in erty Rights (IPRs) of our na-
India’ and ‘Make AI work for tion,” said Das. He added that
FIR registered in Tilakwadi India’, three centres for excel-
lence will be set up in top edu-
these COE will “help solve In-
dia’s challenges which re-
ganja case, says ADGP
cational institutions. Leading quire AI-ML (machine
industry players will partner learning)-based technologies
in conducting interdiscipli- for optimised performance”.
E X P R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ Belagavi nary research and develop cut- “The government’s focus on
ting-edge applications and scal- integrating technology and
REACTING to the allegation of Sri Ram Sena Hindustan (SRSH) able problem solutions in areas aiding agriculture, healthcare
chief Ramakant Konduskar, Additional Director General of Po- of agriculture, health and sus- and education verticals need
lice (Law & Order) Alok Kumar has ordered an inquiry into a tainable cities. This will galva- to be applauded. A big boost
suspected ganja (marijuana) selling case reported in Tilakwadi nize an effective ecosystem and has been given to AI, with the
police station limits of Belagavi recently. nurture quality human re- setting up of three COE in top
It may be recalled here that Konduskar had on Tuesday alleged sources in the field.” education institutes under the
that illegal activities was on the rise in the Belagavi South As- International Institute of guidance of industry veter-
sembly Constituency, and was being neglected by the local police. Information Technology Ban- ans,” said CEO, Crayon Soft-
He had alleged that an accused was found along with three kg of galore (IIITB) Director Prof ware Experts India, Rajendra
ganja near RPD college in Tilakwadi police station limits. Debabrata Das told TNIE this Chitale.
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