Will raise illegal mining issue in Parliament again, says Sumalatha
The Hindu
Continuing her tirade against illegal mining in the vicinity of Krishna Raja Sagar in Mandya district, the Independent MP from Mandya Sumalatha on Sunday said she would raise the illegal mining issue
Continuing her tirade against illegal mining in the vicinity of Krishna Raja Sagar in Mandya district, the Independent MP from Mandya Sumalatha on Sunday said she would raise the illegal mining issue in Parliament again and seek stringent action against those involved. “I have already raised the issue in Parliament twice in the past. Even in the next Parliament session, I will do so,” she told reporters here. “My fight is not personal and not against any individual. This is not a fight against (former Chief Minister) H.D. Kumaraswamy also. My fight is against the inconvenience due to mining in my district,” she said.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.