Malkapure criticises Shettar
The Hindu
Member of Legislative Council Raghunath Rao Malkapure has criticised the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Jagadish Shetter for dragging BJP leader B.L. Santosh’s name in the episode where he missed BJP ticket to contest from Hubballi-Dharwad Assembly Constituency and said that “I feel Mr. Shettar gave that statement in frustration.”
Member of Legislative Council Raghunath Rao Malkapure has criticised the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Jagadish Shetter for dragging BJP leader B.L. Santosh’s name in the episode where he missed BJP ticket to contest from Hubballi-Dharwad Assembly Constituency and said that “I feel Mr. Shettar gave that statement in frustration.”
Mr Malkapure was talking to reporters in Yadgir on Wednesday.
“He was a leader who strengthened the party and he might have felt hurt after missing ticket. We also have sympathy for him. But his joining the Congress has brought sorrow to party workers because the Congress is ideologically against the BJP. Therefore, his decision is not right under democratic system,” he said.
Mr. Malkapure further said that Mr. Shettar was a frontline fighter when the Idgah issue was raised in Hubballi. Now, what will be his stand after joining the Congress as it is opposed to the fight for Idgah? he asked.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.