Karnataka: New CM Selection Today

The Bharatiya Janata Party's all powerful Parliamentary Board is not able to decide the new incumbent CM for Karnataka, even though BS Yeddyurappa has resigned on Sunday after being indicted in the illegal mining report. Party observers Arun Jaitly and Rajnath Singh are still camping in Bangalore to finalize the formalities. The party's choice as new CM for the state is hovering around names of Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar. Finally, one among these two will be selected as new Chief Minister of Karnataka today.

According to sources, Tuesday turned out to be a hectic lobbying day for both Yeddyurappa and CM-probable Shettar's camp in wooing party MLAs to their side. While Yeddyurappa is firmly backing Gowda, state party president KS Eshwarappa is supporting Shettar's candidature. Even after three days of deliberations, the party has failed to come out with a consensus candidate.

Both camps claim they have more number of MLAs with them. While Shettar's group has made hotel Lalith Ashoka as their base, MLAs supporting Yeddyurappa are staying in hotel Chancery Pavilion. Not wanting to get recognised with any camp, observers including Dharmendra Pradhan have chosen to stay in hotel Le Meridian. All these star hotels are situated in the Central Business District (CBD). Discussion on choosing Yeddyurappa's successor went till late on Tuesday night. Yeddyurappa's emissaries - Murugesh R Nirani, Basavaraj Bommai and CM Udasi - came to the hotel where observers were staying and held talks with Singh and Eshwarappa.


 

 

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.