Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Sep 23: Sacked minister, Gulihatti Shekhar, is learnt to have dropped his plans to commit suicide as threatened by him earlier, if he is forced to quit ministry. He has requested his fans and followers not to get emotional or attempt to commit suicide, by reminding them philosophically that power is not permanent.

A lady fan of Gulihatti, residing at Giriyapur in Srirampur revenue division of Hosadurg taluk, Chitradurga district, after seeing Shekhar shedding tears in a television news channel, suffered cardiac arrest and died on Wednesday morning. Shekhar participated in her cremation, and assured that he would meet the marriage expenses of her daughter, in addition to helping the family to undertake sheep rearing activity, and allotting three acres of agricultural land to it.

Speaking to the press, Gulihatti said that he committed a mistake by extending unconditional support to the BJP government. However he said he will continue to back the government. It is said that Yeddyurappa was angry at the fact Shekhar had sided with the Reddy faction in the last revolt, and had financed Y S V Dutta, candidate of JDS in Kadur assembly constituency in the by election there recently, besides deciding not to canvass for the BJP candidate. On Wednesday evening, the Chief Minister is said to have assured Shekhar that he can retain the residential bungalow, car and gunman given to him, as he would soon be made the chairman of a corporation.

A gang of fans of dropped minister, K Shivanagouda Nayak, burnt a bus in Arakera village near Devadurga, after stopping it, on Wednesday. The bus was coming to Devadurg from Bangalore. The mob stopped the bus, pelted stones at it, asked the passengers to alight, and then put it on fire.

Ramachandra Gowda, who was forced to resign as medical education minister following the recruitment scam, has been made the deputy chairman of Karnataka State Planning Board. He took charge on Wednesday, immediately after an order was issued to this effect.

The fact that Revu Nayak Belamagi, erstwhile animal husbandry minister, has been given charge of mass education and library departments, has raised many eyebrows. By his own claims, Belamagi is an illiterate. The CM does not seem to have considered this fact while allotting these departments to him. When questioned, Belamagi said that he respects Yeddyurappa as a father figure, and that he cannot think of violating what he asks him to do.