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Time of India
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Govt denying social security scheme benefits to 42k people: BJP
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada BJP president Sathish Kumpala said 42,184 beneficiaries under social security schemes in the district received notices seeking a review of their eligibility to receive govt benefits. Congress govt is trying to snatch the rights of people by denying govt scheme benefits for around last six months, Kumpala said on Thursday. "Beneficiaries under Sandhya Suraksha, widow pension and other schemes have received notices seeking a review of their eligibility for respective scheme benefits. The govt wants to exclude and deny scheme benefits to them citing silly reasons like beneficiaries possessing mobile phones and other assets," he said. Accusing the govt of being mired in corruption, Sathish said the administration under chief minister Siddaramaiah has no concern for poor people. He said poor people with small pieces of land are made to walk from pillar to post for getting single site approvals from the urban development authorities. Poor people are not able to build houses because of the anti-people policies of the govt. In the Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) office alone, 620 applications pertaining to Forms 9 and 11 are pending. Similarly, a large number of applications for single site approvals are pending in Puttur Urban Development Authority (PUDA), he said. No poor families have been sanctioned houses under housing schemes after the Congress came to power. Only the Puttur assembly constituency has been sanctioned 250 houses, he said, adding that the govt has shown disparity by sanctioning houses to the constituency represented by a Congress MLA. Protest in front of MCC Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath said while protests will be held against the state govt across the district simultaneously on Monday, a demonstration will also be held in front of the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) the same day. Mangaluru City North MLA Dr Y Bharath Shetty said the Congress govt in the state has made the MCC and MUDA their ATMs.
The Hindu
03-06-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Government misusing police to harass Sangh Pariwar activists, alleges BJP
BJP Dakshina Kannada president Satish Kumpala on Tuesday accused the State government of misusing the police 'to mentally harass and lower the morale of Sangh Parivar activists by registering unnecessary cases against them.' Speaking to the media after meeting City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy and Dakshina Kannada SP K. Arun, along with BJP MLAs and leaders over the issue of the police registering cases against some Sangh Parivar activists, he said that the delegation expressed displeasure over the police projecting those working for Hindu organisations as criminals. The delegation took objection to the registration of an FIR against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat for alleged hate speech, the move to extern some Hindu leaders by identifying them and the police visiting the houses of those who are working for Hindu organisations during night, Mr. Kumpala said. 'All these steps appear like an undeclared Emergency,' Mr. Kumpala said. Meanwhile, in a statement, Mr. Kumpala alleged that the appeasement attitude of the Congress is costing others. The BJP condemns it, he said. He said that the BJP will cooperate in maintaining peace if the police acted impartially. The BJP will launch an agitation if the government did not stop 'misusing the government machinery to threaten and harass Hindu leaders', he said. The delegation that met the police officers along with Mr. Kumpala includes MLAs Y. Bharat Shetty, Umanath Kotian, Harish Poonja, Rajesh U. Naik, Bhagirathi Murulya and Kishore Kumar Puttur, MLC. Some office bearers of the district unit of the BJP were also with the delegation.
