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Bengaluru: Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri to be Assembly Speaker

  •   Tue, Jul 30 2019 07:16:44 PM

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Bengaluru, Jul 30: Soft-spoken and mild-mannered Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, a six-term BJP MLA from Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district, is set to become the next Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

Though chief minister B S Yediyurappa was keen on getting former Speaker K G Bopaiah to man the House in view of the strong presence of senior leaders such as former chief ministers Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy and several veteran leaders in the opposition Congress and JD(S), apparently the disinclination of Bopaiah to occupy the hot seat forced the ruling party to opt Kageri.

The 58-year-old leader, who celebrated his birthday on July 10, was the only candidate to file his nomination papers before close of the 12 noon deadline before Legislative Assembly Secretary M K Vishalakshi.

Chief minister Yediyurappa and senior BJP leaders Govind Karjol, R Ashok, Jagadish Shettar, K S Eshwarappa and S Suresh Kumar accompanied Kageri while filing the nomination papers.

Kageri will be occupying the hot seat vacated by K R Ramesh Kumar, an one-time former Speaker, who resigned his post after a tumultuous tenure of 14 months following the defeat of the Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition regime after disqualifying as many as 17 legislators belonging to Congress and JD(S).

One of the first decision to be taken by the new Speaker will be deciding the fate of the lone BSP member and former minister Mahesh, who is also facing disqualification but Ramesh Kumar kept the decision pending.

Kageri’s unopposed election will be formally announced when the Assembly meets on Wednesday after Yediyurappa won the floor test in a truncated House. 
  

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Wed, Jul 31 2019

    dis speaker will speak in kaage-uri

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Tue, Jul 30 2019

    Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri another RSS loyalist who served as Primary and Secondary School Minister in debut BJP government issued show-cause notices all Christian schools and colleges.

    On August 29,2008, that day, the two schools, along with over 2,000 schools and educational institutions across Karnataka, had closed down in protest against the attacks on Christians in Orissa — a day of silent protest observed by Christian institutions across the country.

    When he was minister wanted government schools with less than five and ten students to close down, the conspiracy by the BJP government to pave way for starting Sangh Parivar run Saraswathi Shishu Mandir which would impart education with a Sangh Parivar touch.

    In 2017, the BJP's speaker is taken into custody for instigating communal violence prevailed in Honnavar for six days after the death of one Paresh Mesta.

    Like OM Birla, who has a very strong connection with RSS and very close to Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP wants all constitutional post occupied by the members of the so-called cultural organization to suppress the voice of the opposition in the house of parliament.
    Jai Hind

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  • Chowkidar Chor Hai!, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 30 2019

    Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri to be Assembly Speaker — Makes no difference as Feku and Dakhu are going to be the microphone and the amplifier!!!

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Tue, Jul 30 2019

    Ok. Good choice.

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