(1)BJP on Friday launched a state wide campaignto counter Yeddyurappa. (2) Judicial Custody Of Mining Baron G Janardhana Reddy And Four Others Extended.
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(1)BJP on Friday launched a state wide campaignto counter Yeddyurappa.
(2) Judicial Custody Of Mining Baron G Janardhana Reddy And Four Others Extended.
(1)BJP on Friday launched a state wide campaignto counter Yeddyurappa.
angalore: To prepare the party for the next year's Assembly polls and counter its rebel leader BS Yeddyurappa, ruling BJP on Friday launched a state wide campaign.
Five teams, including the one headed by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and party state unit president K S Eswarappa, would visit various districts till December 30, BJP said in a press release here.
The Shettar lead team would tour in the districts of Chikkodi, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag and Belgaum.
Eswarappa and his team will visit Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Raichur and Koppal, it said.
General Secretary Anantkumar, former Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok will also be heading a team each, the release said.
Anantkumar team will visit Tumkur, Chitradurga, Davanagere and Bangalore Urban.
Sadananda Gowda will campaign in Mandya, Chamarajanagar, Mysore, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu.
The team led by Ashok visits Bidar, Gulbarga, Belgaum, Kolar, Chikkaballapur and Ramanagar.
Yeddyurappa who launched his Karnataka Janata Party on December 9, has been criss-crossing parts of the state to drum up support for his outfit ahead of the Assembly polls due by April-May next, sending shock waves to BJP.
Yeddyurappa also plans to hold a meeting of MLAs supporting him by this week end to decide the fate of Shettar government.
(2) Judicial Custody Of Mining Baron G Janardhana Reddy And Four Others Extended.
Bangalore: A CBI court on Friday extended to December 31 the judicial custody of mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and four others, arrested in the illegal mining case of Associated Mining Corporation (AMC) owned by him.
CBI court judge BM Angadi extended the judicial custody of the accused till December 31.
Reddy and his close aide Mehfuz Ali Khan were produced before the court through video conferencing from Chanchalguda jail in Hyderabad where they have been lodged in connection with the Obulapuram Mining Company case (OMC) case.
However, the other three were produced through video conferencing from Parappana Agrahara jail here.
The bail pleas of all the five accused was rejected by the CBI court earlier.
Reddy subsequently moved the High Court for bail and his plea was also rejected.
The bail pleas of Khan, the then Deputy Conservator of Forests, Bellary district, S Muthaiah and the then Director Mines and Geology S P Raju have already been rejected by the High Court.