Page 5 - Devaraj Urs News Today

Mangaluru: Through land reform acts, former CM D Devaraj Urs provided land to Dalits and people from backward communities in Dakshina Kannada.

Mysuru: Social welfare minister HC Mahadevappa on Sunday appealed to Congress activists to ensure that the five poll guarantees schemes reach the targ.

Mysuru: People should unite and meaningfully celebrate the birth anniversary of former CM D Devaraj Urs, said additional DC Kavitha Rajaram on Wednesd.

Congress is stitching a Karnataka-like Ahinda coalition to its traditional Reddy bedrock. For nine years, KCR has triumphed over caste divides by tapping statehood sentiments. BJP’s difficult attempt to unite the scattered OBC vote and play up Hindutva is the third pole in the fight for a winning social coalition

Education played the most significant role in entrenchment of Hindutva ideology in coastal Karnataka. Teachers of most of the schools, junior colleges, degree colleges and universities are active agents of Hindutva propaganda.

One suspects the ultimate battle of the soul of the country will be between syncretic Hinduism and the more aggressive Hindutva.

Fate had it that at least six Karnataka chief ministers who chose to hold their swearing-in ceremonies on the footsteps of this neo-Dravidian architectural marvel did not complete their full five-year terms

Amidst the Congress party's resounding triumph in the state, the question of who would assume the role of the next Chief Minister hung for several days.

Enjoys support of majority of the party MLAs, chosen CM following days of intense deliberations & intervention by AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and former Congress chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi; KPCC president DK Shivakumar, who too was angling for the top job, to be deputy CM

Siddaramaiah is seen as a mass leader of the backward classes and a man who introduced the populist Bhagya schemes --- Anna (rice), Ksheera (milk), Shaadi (marriage for the underprivileged), etc. He also has the distinction of presenting as many as seven state budgets as finance minister