Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Feb 8: Expressing gratitude to Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, B Ramanath Rai, for taking interest in the welfare of villagers of Narikombu village in the taluk and ensuring that road and other development works worth six crore rupees were taken up in that villages, several banners had been put up in the village hailing the minister. However, it was found that these banners were torn and damaged by unidentified people.

The villagers of Narikombu are particularly thankful to the minister for seeing to it that works to provide road connectivity to different parts of Narikombu village have been undertaken, by getting grants for them through his efforts. Some people who it appears could not digest the popularity earned by the minister, tore them apart.

The villagers, aggrieved by the act of the mischief mongers, approached divine powers they believe in, like Kallurti Daivasthana at Panolibail, Sri Satyadevata Kallurti shrine in Panemangaluru, Abbayamajalu Goddess Mahammayi at Mogarnadu, Eramale Kadedi Bhadrakali temple and Kodandarama Bhajana Mandir on Wednesday February 7 and offered prayers there. They prayed to the divine to give grant sense to the people involved in this heinous act, and also sought that the identities of the miscreants are disclosed.

Leaders like Prakash Karanth, Alphonse Menezes, Umesh Bolantoor, Albert Menezes, Laxman Kalyanagrahar, Gayathri, Raveendra Sapalya, Krishnappa Nati, Vishwanath Kodangekody, Ramesh Borugade, Bharatraj, Divakar, Sundar Elabe, Thomas Lawrence, Vasanth Shetty, Sundar Madiwala, Madhava Karbettu, Yogish Panolibail, Praveen, Aruna Shetty, Dejappa, Rajesh, Keshava Shanti, Monappa Poojary and Sanjeev Sapalya were present.