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The Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee members and other Congress activists will take out a march in the city on Monday to urge the Central and the State governments to take steps to prevent
He seeks action against erring doctor
Leader of the Congress in Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) Council A.C. Vinayraj alleged on Saturday that a doctor at Government Wenlock Hospital made the sister-in-law of a 74-year-old COVID-19 patient look after her in the hospital on Friday night.
Medical Superintendent of the hospital, who is also the District Surgeon, Sadashiva has refuted the allegation. He told
The Hindu that no caretaker is being allowed inside the COVID-19 ward and the hospital building to look after their family members.
In a press release on Saturday, Mr. Vinayraj, who is also the spokesperson of the Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee, said that the patient from Kodical had been shifted from the A.J. Hospital and Research Centre to the Wenlock Hospital and admitted in the B ward.
Congress workers participates in a rally in Mangaluru against fuel price hike.
MANGALURU: Congress workers held a protest rally against increase in the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG in Mangaluru on Tuesday.
Party workers staged a demonstration by walking from the Clock Tower to the deputy commissioner’s office, carrying firewood on their heads, symbolically opposing the frequent hike fuel prices.
The party workers also used a bullock cart and pulled an autorickshaw to express their anger over the price rise and inflation.
At a protest meeting held near the deputy commissioner’s office, former minister B Ramanath Rai said that while the Congress was always with the poor and downtrodden, the BJP in power has been following an anti-people policy.
Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee (DCC) president K Harish Kumar (left) and former minister B Ramanath Rai.
MANGALURU: Opposing the hike in prices of petrol, diesel and LPG, Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee (DCC) will hold a protest rally from Light House Hill to the deputy commissioner’s office on March 2.
DCC president K Harish Kumar said that organisations of owners and workers of buses, auto rickshaws, fishing boats and other forums will take part in the rally, which will commence at 10am. Meanwhile, buses and auto rickshaws will remain off the road as a token of protest till 2pm on the day, he said.