1. Leaders of Karnataka Congress, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar, are in New Delhi today for meetings with the high command for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and to discuss differences within the party with a section of MLAs airing their grievances at the Congress Legislature Party meeting recently.
2. Former minister and BJP leader Araga Jnanendra has kicked up a row by making a derogatory remark about AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge’s skin colour during a protest today.
3. Department of Social Welfare, Government of Karnataka, and Center for the Study of Marginalized Communities at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, are jointly organising a two-day State-level workshop on ‘Strengthening of rehabilitation schemes for identified manual scavengers’. Social Welfare Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa will preside over the programme at Moulana Abdul Kalam Azad Bhavan in Vasantnagar, at 10 a.m.
