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KALABURAGI: Four more patients succumbed at a taluk hospital in Kalaburagi in the wee hours of Tuesday due to a shortage of oxygen. Nine had died on Monday and of the four who died on Tuesday, two were male. All four were on oxygen support.
Prashant Patil, an advocate from Afzalpur, whose client’s brother was among the dead, scoffed at the district administration’s claims that the patients died of comorbidities and that there was no shortage of oxygen at the hospital.
“Yes, there was oxygen early in the evening, but stock was exhausted by the night,” Prashanth said. “The hospital expected refill cylinders to arrive late in the night, but that didn’t come. All four patients desperately needed oxygen support. They died before fresh stock arrived.” Patil said eight other patients were provided oxygen from the fresh stock in the morning.
Mangala Angadi; Mala Narayanarao (R)
HUBBALLI: North Karnataka on Sunday saw the defeat of Mala Narayanarao, wife of late Congress MLA B Narayanarao, and narrow victory of Mangala Angadi, wife of late BJP Union minister Suresh Angadi. Mangala made the final cut with a margin of 5,240 votes.
While both parties fielded spouses of their late leaders to garner votes, the sympathy card appears to have lost its sheen as it didn’t necessarily translate into many votes.
The strategy failed in the 2020 byelections too, when in Sira, JD(S) fielded the better half of late MLA B Satyanarayana, but was relegated to third place when results were declared.
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BELAGAVI: The father of a woman, who allegedly figures in a CD related to the sex-for-jobs complaint against former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, on Tuesday lodged a complaint at Belagavi’s APMC police station saying his daughter has been kidnapped.
The ex-serviceman, who now works as a bank clerk, said in his complaint that his 25-year-old daughter was kidnapped before March 2. He alleged she was forced into appearing in the CD. Explaining why complaint has been delayed, he said he and his family who live in Belagavi city were scared for their life.
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