Several Congress leaders, involved in the party’s 10-day ‘padayatra’ in Karnataka demanding implementation of the Mekedatu project on the Cauvery river, have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to a ‘super spread’ of the disease among the densely populated is being suspected. A packed rally.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader Veerappa Moily and others have tested positive for the disease, while many others are down with fever-like symptoms. Both Moily and Kharge attended the opening ceremony of the padyatra.
Former Bengaluru Mayor Gangaambik Mallikarjuna tested positive along with other women leaders like Kamalakshi Rajanna and Manjula Manasa. MLA Lakshmi Heballakar also has fever.
In a letter, Karnataka CM Bommai has asked the Congress to stop the rally amid the spread of COVID in the state.
Earlier, 30 including state party president DK Shivakumar and former CM Siddaramaiah were booked for violating COVID-19 norms in the state. Shivakumar had ruthlessly refused a test when the district health officer came and said, ‘Re mister, I am fit and fine’.
The leader further alleged that the health officials were acting on the instructions of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who had earlier organized a march and warned of action for violating the COVID norms.
The Karnataka BJP on Sunday slammed the Congress for its Mekedatu padyatra and shared a purported video of state Congress chief DK Shivakumar coughing, calling the Congress a “superspreader”. Dam. He appears to be suffering from Covid-19 symptoms, but he is still interacting with Congress staff without a mask. Is he bent on increasing the number of corona cases? The official Twitter account of Karnataka BJP had tweeted.
Led by Shivakumar and Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly Siddaramaiah, the padyatra with the theme ‘Namma Neeru Namma Hakku’ (Our water, our right) began at the confluence of the Kaveri and Arkavati rivers at Kanakapura in Ramanagara district, and would be around 139 Will be spread over a distance of kilometers.
However, Siddaramaiah, who took part in the march earlier on Sunday, returned to Bengaluru after lunch due to fever, and is likely to return after his recovery, party sources had told PTI.
With the participation of hundreds of activists, politicians and cultural groups, the major opposition party in the state remained unimpressed by warnings of government action in case of COVID restrictions and violation of rules. The government has imposed a weekend curfew and restricted public gatherings till January 19 to fight the surge in COVID-19 cases. It has also imposed a night curfew, and banned all rallies, dharnas and protests.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka High Court asked the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) whether it was allowed to organize a ‘Walk for Water’ padyatra or not, sources in the Congress said after the party called off its rally abruptly. Chances are. on 14 January.
The court on Wednesday asked the KPCC to state by January 14 whether it has taken any permission to organize a padyatra demanding a balancing reservoir on the Kaveri river at Mekedatu in Ramnagar district.
Congress sources told CNN-News18 that the party plans to end the yatra in Bidadi and will not enter Bengaluru. The plan has changed after the Additional Advocate General met party leader DK Shivakumar and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, he said.
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