Yeddyurappa out, Kumaraswamy in 

Special Correspondent 
 
Bengaluru, May 20, 2018 00:00 IST



High and dry:B.S. Yeddyurappa addressing the legislators in the Assembly in Bengaluru on Saturday.Bhagya Prakash KThe Hindu
Unable to cobble up the numbers, BJP leader resigns without facing trust voteGovernor invites Janata Dal (S) leaderto form govt., swearing-in on WednesdayTwo ‘missing’ Congress legislatorsshow up in Assembly to support party

The less than three-day-old BJP government, led by B.S. Yeddyurappa, made way for a Congress-Janata Dal (S) alliance dispensation in Karnataka on Saturday in a tame end to a week-long political drama.

Mr. Yeddyurappa, who had taken oath as Chief Minister on May 17 after the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, resigned without facing the floor test on Saturday, convinced that he did not command the numbers in the House. Making an impassioned speech that he would fight for farmers “till the last breath” and that he would start touring the State again, Mr. Yeddyurappa walked out of the Assembly.

JD(S) leader’s plans

Later on Saturday evening, H.D. Kumaraswamy, president of the Karnataka State JD(S), was invited by Governor Vajubhai Vala to form the government. Mr. Kumaraswamy announced that he would take oath as Chief Minister on Wednesday. He is set to meet Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi on Monday.

The oath-taking function, earlier scheduled for Monday, was postponed to Wednesday as former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s death anniversary falls on Monday.

The day saw much political drama as both the BJP and the Congress-JD(S) camps claimed numbers in their favour. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition from the Congress party challenging the appointment of K.G. Bopaiah as pro tem Speaker. Even as the session was on, the Congress released audio recordings that allegedly had BJP leaders —including Mr. Yeddyurappa and BJP MLA B. Sriramulu — trying to woo Congress MLAs with inducements to shore up the numbers. The BJP’s hopes of getting the numbers dimmed as the morning wore on and it was clear by afternoon that they would not sail through.

When the two “missing” Congress MLAs — Anand Singh and Pratapgouda Patil — who were in a private hotel, turned up at the Vidhana Soudha to join the Congress camp, it brought more cheer to the Congress-JD(S) camp.

Mr. Yeddyurappa announced his resignation minutes later, while making an admission that the BJP had reached out to the opposition MLAs.

Speaking to the media in the evening, Mr. Kumaraswamy said that though the Governor had given him 15 days to prove his majority, he would do so much earlier.

Meanwhile, Congress-JD(S) MLAs were again herded into hotels in Bengaluru to keep the flock together till the new government proves its majority. “All MLAs will remain in Bengaluru. Both parties’ MLAs will be housed at a common place,” Mr. Kumaraswamy added.

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Pondy varsities asked to admit students ‘illegally denied entry’

Bosco.Dominique@timesgroup.com

Puducherry: 20.05.2018

The director general of health sciences (DGHS),NewDelhi,on Saturday directed the four deemed universities in Puducherry to accommodate 28 students who were ‘illegally denied admission’intothe postgraduate medical courses offered by them duetotheir inability to pay ‘exorbitant fees’ demandedby them.

DGHS’ directive came following an order by the Madras high court in favour of the 28 students (petitioners), said counsel of the petitionersVBRMenon.

DGHS member secretary B Srinivas, in an official correspondence dated May 19, directedthefour deemeduniversities — Arupadai Veedu Medical College, Vinayaka Mission Medical College, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute and Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Science in Puducherry – to ‘admit the students against the vacancies in their respective colleges'. He also enclosed copies of the Madras high court order for their perusal.

“After completion of DGHS mop-up round of PG seats 2018, any seat remaining vacant thereafter will be transferred/reverted back to respective deemed/central universities and the allotment against these transferred/reverted seats will be done by the concerned universities at their own level. You are therefore requested to adjust these students (petitioners) against the vacancies at your respective colleges as per the availability under intimation of the undersigned (DGHS member secretary B Srinivas) for further intimation to the Medical Council of India,” said Srinivas in the official correspondence to the four deemeduniversities.

Srinivas also directed Menon to intimate the petitionersto approachthe medical colleges concerned for their admission intothe postgraduate medical courses after the completion of the mop-up counselling by the DGHS.

DGHS also markedcopies of its correspondence to MCI secretary and the Union government’s standing counsel in theMadrashighcourt.

There are widespread complaints that the deemed universitieshavebeen charging exorbitant fees (more than ₹45 lakh per annum) for postgraduate medical courses.

Man walks into complex, walks out with bike

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 20.05.2018
An unidentified man walked into an apartment complex in Kotturpuram, and escaped with a bike belonging to a college student on Sunday. The incident was recorded by the CCTV camera installed in the building.

The police said the student Saran Anand, a resident of Sastri Nagar, went to meet his friend who lives in an apartment complex on Erikarai Street in Kotturpuram.

He parked his bike outside the house.

Based on Anand’s complaint the Kotturpuram police have registered a case. The footage shows a burglar walking into the apartment, as if residing there, and leaving wearing a helmet. He broke the side lock of the bike and rode away.

The police have lifted photograph of the suspect from the CCTV footage and trying to trace him.

Counselling for PG med and dental courses begins

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 20.05.2018

After being marred by legal hurdles, the NEET-based single window counselling for post-graduate medical and dental admissions began on Saturday.

The first day of admissions were reserved for people with physical disability. Twenty-three candidates, who had applied under ‘orthopaedically physically disabled quota’ were called for medical examination and counselling at 11am. As per the selection committee, of the 19 people who turned up 14 —including nine service candidates — were allotted seats in various government colleges. “We allotted seats after approval from the medical board. Five of them opted out,” said selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan.

Counselling will go on till Tuesday (Sunday included) for medical courses and on Wednesday and Friday for MDS courses. There are 981 PG degree and diploma medical seats across 15 government colleges This year, 10,576 students applied for counselling. The rank list was released based on PG-NEET scores and incentives were awarded to candidates based on a government order framed on the advice of a sixmember committee. 4% of marks over their NEET score for every year, not exceeding 30%.

Mom wins case, child’s birth cert now without dad’s name

A.Subramani@timesgroup.com

Chennai   20.05.2018
: Tavishi Perara may probably be India’s first child without a father, or that’s how her birth certificate is going to read, thanks to the Madras high court’s direction to authorities to keep the father’s name column on the child’s birth certificate blank.

The relief, however, did not come easy for the child’s mother, Mathumitha Ramesh, who had to wage two rounds of litigation to ensure her daughter got a birth certificate without father’s name. For Tavishi was born through intrauterine fertility treatment with the help of a semen donor.

Mathumitha Ramesh was separated from her husband Charan Raj by mutual consent, and Tavishi was born in April 2017 through an intrauterine fertility treatment. However, the commissioner of Trichy Corporation issued a certificate showing one Manish Madanpal Meena as ‘father’ of the child, as he happened to extend help to Mathumitha during her treatment.

When she approached authorities for removing Meena’s name from the father’s name column, it was rejected on the ground that only rectification of mistakes and errors in names of father could be done, and removal of the name was not possible. 



‘Remove wrong name, don’t ask for another one’

Assailing the September 4, 2017 order, Mathumitha moved the high court which directed revenue officials to rectify the certificate. But her application to revenue divisional officer was rejected yet again on the ground that it was the registrar of births and deaths who was the competent authority to take a decision on the matter. Mathumitha approached the court again, where her counsel Shabnam Banu argued that Meena’s name had erroneously crept into the birth certificate.

Interestingly, both Meena and Mathumitha’s estranged husband Charan Raj filed separate affidavits stating that neither of them was the father of the child and that they were no way related to Mathumitha’s pregnancy. Meena said he had helped her at the hospital on humanitarian grounds during the time of delivery.

Justice M S Ramesh, after listening to both sides and perusing all relevant documents, said Mathumitha was entitled to succeed because it was clear that she had become pregnant through intrauterine fertility treatment with the help of donated semen.

Narrating these facts and directing the chief health officer of Trichy corporation to remove Meena’s name from the father’s name column, which would now be left blank, justice Ramesh restrained the official from demanding name of the father for the purpose of filling the column.

“I have made these observations consciously in order to restrain the chief health officer from insisting on any other name in the birth certificate on the father’s name column,” the judge said, and posted the case to June 11 for compliance of the order.