Hundreds of protesters belonging to the Banjara community attacked the home and office of former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa in Shivamogga area of the state during a massive demonstration against a recent reservation decree on Monday afternoon.

According to reports, a sea of protesters from the Banjara community descended upon Shikaripur town in Shivamogga and held a huge demonstration against the Karnataka government’s recent decision on implementing internal reservation among Scheduled Castes (SC).

Chaotic visuals of the protest show the demonstrators being baton charged by the police in order to disperse them as try to picket Yediyurappa’s house.

The protesters also set ablaze posters carrying images of BJP veteran Yediyurappa and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai. The agitators later staged a protest outside the Panchayat office in the town.

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An official said that a policeman was also injured in the violence. He said that Superintendent of Police G K Mithun Kumar later visited the Shikaripur town to take stock of the situation, adding that prohibitory orders have been imposed in the area.

Karnataka’s Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP regime has decided to implement the AJ Sadashiva panel commission report on internal reservation among SC’s. Based on the commission’s report, the Bommai government has recommended to the Centre a new breakup of the reservation for Scheduled Castes in education and jobs.

The recommendations suggest that out of the 17 percent reservation for the SC community, 6 percent be earmarked for Scheduled Castes (left), 5.5 percent for Scheduled Castes (right), 4.5 percent for “touchables” and one percent to others.

The Banjara community has demanded the Karnataka government to withdraw the proposed amendments as they would stand to lose out if the recommendations are implemented.

In 2005, then Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government in Karnataka had set up the AJ Sadashiva Commission to look into the need for sub-classifying Scheduled Caste reservations in the state.

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As many as 38 schoolgirls of the Kasturba residential school in Mitauli block of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district tested positive for Covid-19, reports said.

This is the highest number of new coronavirus cases were recorded in a district within a day. Reports further said the matter came to light after a student of the school tested Covid-19 positive following which the health officials conducted a mass testing of 92 people including teachers and students.

A few reports also said the girl student, who tested positive first, returned from her Holi vacation.

Lakhimpur Kheri Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Santosh Gupta, informed that one staff member also tested positive for the virus during a contact tracing exercise. After this, the Health Department turned the school campus into a quarantine centre.

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Gupta also said all students and staff had been advised seven-day quarantine on campus and are provided with medical kits. All students, barring two who have colds, are stable.

District Magistrate, Lakhimpur Kheri, Mahendra Bahadur Singh ensured that necessary precautionary measures, including providing medical kits, sanitisation, and others are being taken. Singh also urged people to follow Covid-19 protocol strictly and not panic.

Meanwhile, India on Monday crossed the 10K mark with 1,800 new Covid-19 cases for the second consecutive day, Union Health ministry data said. Six more people succumbed to the virus taking the total death toll to 5,30,837.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted an emergency meeting to prepare the country and directed health officials to conduct a nationwide mock drill across government hospitals on April 10 and 11.

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A video has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly where two policemen from the 112 branch can be seen brutally beating up and manhandling a man. As per the reports, the incident escalated over an issue of money.

In the video, the two policemen can be seen manhandling and shoving the man. The video also shows the two policemen picking up the man and slamming him against the bike.

The police in the video can be seen unabashedly displaying their unruly behavior while the local residents watch them. Toward the end of the video, one policeman can be seen slapping the man across his face as the man recollects himself from the assault. The other policeman can be seen trying the pacify the situation as he tries to stop his colleague from hitting him further.

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Twitter reactions

After the video of the assault by the police went viral, many users came forward to slam the Bareily Police over their unruly behavior. One user wrote and suggested that in order to get better policing, they must be transferred every 6 months, in order to get better policing.

One user wrote and said this will continue under the rule of the BJP, implying that the BJP government fails to hold such police officials accountable for their actions which leads to the police going unchecked with their unruly behavior.

Another incident

Another video came to light recently from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad where a group of men can be charging at a Muslim jaggery seller with sticks and bricks. As per the reports, the mob that attacked the man with bricks and stones were local vendors in the area.

Following the incident, Nandgram police nabbed 6 accused in the matter, said reports.

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