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Sadananda Gowda Woos Jagadish Shettar Faction before Swearing-in

  •   Thu, Aug 04 2011 03:22:19 PM

Bangalore, Aug 4 (IANS) Hours before taking oath as the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) second chief minister in Karnataka, D.V. Sadananda Gowda Thursday met the party's faction leader Jagadish Shettar to ensure smooth functioning of his government.

"Gowda drove to Shettar's residence in the city and invited him and supporters present there to the oath-taking ceremony at Raj Bhavan in the evening. He also sought the cooperation of all legislators for the smooth running of the party's second government in the state," a party source told IANS.

Gowda was elected the BJP's legislature party leader Wednesday through a secret ballot after the party's central observers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh failed to choose a consensus candidate from the faction-ridden party in the state.

Though the party did not officially declare by how many votes Gowda won over Shettar, a party official said the margin was narrow and the contest was close, with 118 of the 120 lawmakers voting in the three-hour long exercise.

Earlier in the day, the 58-year-old Gowda moved into the official residence, Anugraha, in the city centre from his rented house in upscale Malleshwaram suburb, as he came under VIP security after Governor H.R. Bhardwaj invited him to form the new government Wednesday.

In a related development, the party's state unit president K.S. Eshwarappa said all the legislators have been invited to be present at Raj Bhavan for Gowda's swearing-in ceremony.

"There are no differences or factions in the ruling party. It's all a media creation. We have elected Gowda as legislature party leader by the most democratic process, which is rare in other parties, be they national or regional," Eshwarappa told reporters.

Hectic parleys have been under way since morning among the party's leaders for swearing-in of a couple of legislators as cabinet ministers after Gowda takes oath as chief minister. However, none from the Shettar faction is expected to be inducted Thursday.
  

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  • Sudheer, Punalur

    Thu, Aug 04 2011

    he Presidential address by Justice K.T. Thomas during Gurupooja which irked Congress
    04/08/2011 01:02:37 HK

    Respected Mohanji Bhagwat, other respected men on the dais and respected members of the audience,

    I was wobbling in my mind as to whether I should speak in the language in which the proceedings were being conducted thus far or in a language in which my speech would be understood by our honorable guest. I have chosen the latter. Because, if I speak in English, in a State like Kerala where the literacy rate is so high, the audience will be able to follow and our honorable guest will also be able to follow.

    I deem it as a real honor and privilege that I am invited to preside over this highly venerated function, Guru Pooja. You know from my name that I am a Christian. I was born in that and I practice that religion. I am a Church-going Christian. But my advantage is that I learnt many things about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. I developed an admiration for this disciplined core of this country as early as 1979 when I was posted as Additional District Judge of Calicut. The Principal District Judge was Mr. A.R.Sreenivasan. Anyone who knew him will agree that his honesty was hundred percent, his integrity was transparent, his scholarship was unparalleled and his commitment to the country was unquestionable. Above all, the discipline he followed in his life was also very admirable. On his retirement, I took over as the Principal District Judge. But immediately Mr. A.R.Sreenivasan became a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. We used to communicate and converse many things. That occasion gave me the advantage of jettisoning many things which the smearing and simmering propaganda made by interested persons outside about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Such notions could be eliminated from my mind. I became a real admirer of this organization.

    I regard many things on the objectivity point of view. Prejudice is a weakness of human being. Human being is not prepared to accept a thing without objectivity. When objectivity is applied, the smearing propaganda earlier that RSS is responsible for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, appears to be unjust and uncharitable. I learnt more about it. Of course, the mere fact that the assassin happened to be once upon a time a member of the organization cannot make the disciplined organization responsible for the murder of the Father of the Nation. Had it been so, can you say that the entire Sikh community of India is responsible for the murder of Indira Gandhi? Can it be said that merely because Jesus Christ was crucified by Roman soldiers at the orders of a Roman Judge, that the whole Roman people at that time committed the murder of Jesus Christ?

    There should be objectivity in approaching these things. And I, therefore, went and read the judgment of Justice Khosla in the Mahatma Gandhi assassination case and I found that the learned judge of Punjab High Court has complete

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  • Louis D'Souza, Udupi/Kuwait

    Thu, Aug 04 2011

    When we who are against corrupt BJp are supporting Gowda, why cant these BJP guys are against him. This Lingayat Policy? Good that their candidate didi not get elected. They claim they are BJP/RSS shisthina Sipahi????

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