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KASARAGOD: Somashekhara J S, the Congress panchayat president of Enmakaje, is heaving a sigh of relief.
The Manjeshwar assembly election in which IUML s A K M Ashraf defeated BJP state president K Surendran by 745 votes was about proving his mettle as a Congress satrap in the border panchayat surrounded by Hindutva politics.
For the BJP, Enmakaje was crucial to Surendran winning in Manjeshwar. It has the largest population of Hindu voters and gives it the biggest lead around 2,288 votes over the UDF among the eight panchayats.
The party s ministers and MLAs from Karnataka camped in the panchayat for three months specifically persuading the Hindu voters of the Congress and CPM to vote for the BJP. The panchayat-wise break-up of votes proves that the BJP swayed a lot of Congress and the LDF voters in Enmakaje but was just not enough.
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Chennithala said Panakkad’s family always gave thrust to secularism.
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Former chief minister Oommen Chandy, who flagged off the yatra at Kumbla in Kasaragod, said the LDF government wasted its mandate by indulging in violent and hate politics By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) kick-started its campaign for assembly elections on Sunday by painting the LDF and the BJP with the same brush and accusing the CPM and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of “deliberately trying to communalise” Kerala.
Speaker after speaker at the launch of the ‘Aishwarya Kerala Yatra’ the UDF’s statewide election campaign targeted the CPM for trying to demonise the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). “The chief minister is pitting Hindus against Muslims and Muslims against Christians,” said Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala, who is leading the yatra from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram. “Why
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MANGALURU: The Mangaluru City Police have cracked a sensational honeytrap case and arrested four people, including two women. The gang through social media used to target businessmen, assault and blackmail them for ransom.
The accused have been identified as Reshma aka Nima, 32, Iqbal alias Mohammed Iqbal 35, Zeenath aka Zeenath Mubin, 28, and Nasif aka Abdul Khader, 25.
City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar told reporters on Monday that Reshma and Zeenath would identify people on social media, befriend them and later invite them to their house. They would post different display pictures. The video of youth being assaulted with a stick had gone viral recently. The incident was reported on January 14 and on January 16, the victim filed a complaint with the Surathkal police based on which four people have been arrested, he said.