Kalburgi murder, farmer suicides dominate on first day of session
The ongoing debate on intolerance crept into proceedings in the Legislative Assembly
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-17 07:34 GMT
BENGALURU: The ongoing debate on intolerance crept into proceedings in the Legislative Assembly at a time when legislators were paying homage to several eminent personalities during obituary references on Monday. While leader of Opposition, Mr Jagadish Shettar, questioned the motive of authors and renowned personalities who returned awards as a mark of protest, JD(S) leader Y.S.V. Datta contended that intolerance had grown beyond tolerable limits.
Condemning the murder of Dr M.M. Kalburgi, Mr Shettar said that it was a heinous attack on a progressive thinker and the government should make all efforts to bring the culprits to book. “If people are talking about intolerance, there was killing of noted thinker Mr Dabolkar in Maharashtra. Even in 1984, it was intolerance against the Sikh community leading to violence in Delhi. Why no one returned their awards at that time? The motive behind return of awards raises many questions,” he added.
The lower House expressed grief over suicide of over 600 farmers, the death of 129 people during a terror attack in Paris, Deodurg MLA Mr A Venkatesh Naik who died in a train accident, former legislators M Mahadeva, Mr G. Mahadevappa, Mr S. Jayaprakash Shetty, Mr H.B. Krishnamurthy, literary personalities Mr Kayyara Kinhanna Rai, and Dr M.M. Kalburgi.
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