Training programme bidar

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and BIOMAP organised a training programme for farmers on Stevia in Bidar on Saturday. Ravi Deshmukh, KVK training coordinator, said the crop had a significant market. Resource persons Mallikarjun Lingadalli, Kapil Patil, R.K. Singh, Vinay Kumar and Parameshwar Chandanshiva spoke. Over 100 farmers participated.

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Writer calls for research on Valmiki.

Writer Venkanna Donnegoudar has called for more research to be done on Valmiki.

Speaking at the Valmiki Jayanti celebrations here on Monday, Dr. Donnegoudar said scriptures mentioned three Valmikis. Writers had built on these stories and fed popular imagination. It was unfortunate that academicians had neglected this “visionary” sage and writer, he said.

Dr. Donnegoudar said Valmiki practised the principles he wrote about in the Ramayana, and tried to reform society.

Welfare schemes

Deepika Sachin Rathod, zilla panchayat president, who inaugurated the celebrations, claimed the State government and the zilla panchayat were implementing several schemes for people from Scheduled Tribes and backward classes.

Bandeppa Kashempur and Rahim Khan, MLAs, Raghunath Malkapure, MLC, Bidar City Municipal Council president Sridevi Karanji, Deputy Commissioner P.C. Jaffer, and zilla panchayat Chief Executive Officer V. Geetanjali were present.

Procession

Earlier, Minister for Infrastructure Development and district in-charge Sunil Valyapure inaugurated a procession from the Deputy Commissioner’s office to the Ranga Mandira.

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Inaugurate a 108-foot statue of Basaveshwara on the Basavakalyan–Bidar road.

The former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said in Basavakalyan on Sunday that there was no change in his decision to quit the BJP and form his own party.

He said that any efforts to hold him back would not succeed.

He was at Basavakalyan to inaugurate a 108-foot statue of Basaveshwara on the Basavakalyan–Bidar road. “There is no change in my decision to quit the BJP and form my own party. That is why I have announced that I would form my new party on December 10,” he told presspersons.

He said that he was not worried about what BJP leaders were saying about him. “I am only focussed on sitting in the Vidhana Soudha and leading the State to prosperity. All I want to do is to make it a ‘Kalyan Rajya’ (welfare State),” he said.

Asked if he would yield to conciliatory efforts by RSS leaders such as M.C. Jayadeva, he said that he had “neither met such leaders nor would he be meeting them.” He also commented about some of his followers in the Cabinet, who have hinted that they may not be joining his party. “I am not dependant on any leader. I depend on the people of this State and not its leaders,” he said.

Asked about the former Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda’s criticism of his decision to quit the BJP, Mr. Yeddyurappa said that he was not bothered about such things. “When Mr. Gowda wanted to be the chairman of the Karnataka Milk Federation, I made him Chief Minister. He has started making such statements after tasting power,” he said.

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