BALOON, KITE MELA ENTHRALLS CHILDREN;

Madikeri January 27

The APMC grounds here wore a festive look with children and their parents immersed in flying colorful kites and balloons. Some of the kites flew so high drawing excitement at the ground.

Cauvery Auto Drivers Association, Kannada and Culture department and Nisarga Tourist information center have jointly organized the show. Dozens of children and residents took part in the show and competitions.

Organizers had also arranged a vintage two wheeler show including Bikes and scooters.

Journalist G.Chidvilas inaugurated the stage function and said that the Auto association is winning the hearts of the people through its innovative programmes.

APMC president Kundyolanda Ramesh Muddaiah, Advocate Kunji Abdulla, A.Appaji from Nisarga group spoke on the occasion. President of the Auto association, Dharmendra presided over. B.k.NANDA, Hidayutulla and and centenarian Sampurnamma were felicitated on the occasion.

Earlier flag hoisting and a procession of Vintage bikes were taken out.

CANDLE BURNS FINGERS!

In an unexpected incident, few customers who approached a candle shop for purchase turned hot and damaged candles! The reason was that the owner was selling candles with the shape of Lord Ganesha.!

The incident occurred at Kaikeri near Gonicoppa yesterday. Suresh, Ashok and friends from balele had gone to the shop belonging to one Srinivas Prasad from Mysore and noticed the controvercial candle. They raised objection stating that it will hurt the sentiments and damaged them. Police arrived at the spot.

The shop owner stated that they are manufacturing candles against order and apologized. The candles were then melted in the boiling water. Circle inspector Venktesh and Sub inspector Mahesh visited the spot and took a written assurance form the owners to not to sell objectionable candles.

RUCKUS AT ZP MEETING; CONGRESS WALKS OUT

Madikeri January 27

Congress members of the Zilla Panchayath today boycotted the meeting by alleging that there is no quorum.

The congress members led by V.P.Shashidar took strong objections to conducting meeting with only sixteen members and demanded cancellation of the meeting. Hell broke loose as Shashidar began to run towards president and CEO to cancel the meeting. Ruling BJP members Manu Muthappa, Raja Rao and others took strong objection and demanded to send Shashidar out. The situation nearly reached fisticuffs. As BJP lady members began to shout that they need to continue meeting, Congress members walked out and squatted before the building and shouted slogans.

The members took objection in the beginning as the attendance book was kept outside the meeting hall for the members to sign. Shashidar said that they should follow the old tradition of taking the signature at the table. He also noticed that the book had the signature of the speaker K.G.Bopaiah. Bopaiah was not present in the meeting and the congress members called it a forgery and shouted ‘shame shame’.

Later a memorandum was submitted to the Chief Executive Officer Mirza Akbarulla urging him to cancel the meeting.

The MLA Appachu Ranjan spoke on the occasion and said that the presence of fifty percent of members makes quorum. President Vijaya continued the meeting in the absence of Congress members. The meeting decided to go on a delegation to urge the government release rupees 12.61 crore for the drinking water project in the district.

Vice president of the ZP, Kanjitanda Anitha was also present.