Thursday, the former deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka Laxman Savadi resigned from the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party after being denied ticket.

The BJP last night released its first list of 189 candidates for the Karnataka assembly elections scheduled for 10^th May, 2023. In the list there was no mention of Savadi’s name.

Laxman Savadi was a senior leader of the BJP Karnataka unit who served as the deputy chief minister when B.S. Yediyurappa sat on the Chief Minister’s seat in 2019 after H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Savadi considered being one of Yediyurappa loyalist was the most prominent Lingayat face of BJP after the latter, he contested the 2018 state polls from the Athani constituency against Congress’s Mahesh Kumtahalli who won the seat.

Kumtahalli was one of the rebel MLAs who left their party and joined hands with BJP that help form its government under Yediyurappa in 2019.

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The BJP on late on Wednesday denied Laxman Savadi’s ticket and went on to choose Kumtahalli as the most favourable candidate for the Athani constituency.

BJP sidelined Savadi had been applying pressure over the party high command for ticket for a long time but the pressure went vague. Addressing the reporters Savadi said that for the decision of the people of Athani constituency is the priority than the party’s decision and that he will take a final decision tomorrow post discussion with his supporters.

Savadi has convened a meeting of his supporters on Thursday to take a decision on his future path.

There are speculations about Laxman Savadi probability of joining Congress but Karnataka state Congress working president Satish Jarkiholi giving clarification said there was no such discussion on senior level and nothing about it has not to his knowledge yet.

Of the 189 candidates that were announced by the BJP, 52 are new entrants who have assigned tickets. The list includes 32 OBC candidates, 30 SC candidates, and 16 ST candidates.

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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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The information was shared by a spokesperson from the Bengaluru International Airport Limited who said a human error had occured. The spokesperson also informed that the passengers were immediately shifted to the international arrivals area for immigration after the terminal operations team was alerted by the authorities.

This kind of human error did not take place for the first time. Earlier this year, Go First neglected to board around 50 passengers who waited on a shuttle bus on the tarmac and the flight took off without them in the Bengaluru-Delhi service.

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Reports said the domestic airline made arrangements for another flight for the left-back passengers after realising the error.

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