Bengaluru Information highlights: Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi on Friday re-entered Karnataka at Raichur, after three days in neighboring Andhra Pradesh. The forty fourth day of the yatra, which started at Mantralayam temple circle in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh this morning, will finish at Yeragera in Raichur district of Karnataka within the night. In the meantime, Rahul Gandhi will journey to Delhi throughout a three-day break from the Bharat Jodo Yatra from October 24 to 26 and attend an occasion during which the newly-elected All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge will take cost, mentioned Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D Ok Shivakumar Friday. This would be the first time Gandhi will go to Delhi because the Yatra started on September 8.
With the BJP authorities in Karnataka deciding on the ordinance route for SC/ST quota hike within the State, Opposition Congress on Friday urged it to convene a particular legislature session to enact a laws to this impact after which take it to the Centre for constitutional modification, PTI reported. In any other case, the choice on the hike in reservation would appear like an eyewash forward of the Meeting election subsequent 12 months, the Congress mentioned. “At current the reservation within the state is 50 per cent, now with this enhance it can go as much as 56 per cent, additionally 10 per cent has been given to economically weaker sections, it is going to be a complete 66 per cent. For this reservation to maintain, it must be given authorized safety by means of a constitutional modification by together with it below the ninth schedule,” mentioned Chief of Opposition Siddaramaiah.
The India Meteorological Division (IMD) Thursday issued a yellow alert for Bengaluru and mentioned the town will proceed to obtain rain until October 23. A number of roads have been waterlogged, following which the HAL Airport Visitors Police issued an advisory asking commuters to keep away from the route between Sakra Hospital and Bellandur Kodi. Many timber have been uprooted, and automobiles have been broken after heavy in a single day showers.