Major General Sudhir G. Vombatkere in a letter to the editor of The New Indian Express:
“The TV channels show clearly that the farmer [Siddalinga Churi] who was shot by police at Haveri was unarmed, walking alone and there was nobody else near him. He was hit in the stomach, fell to the ground, tried to stay up by holding the railing, then collapsed, and died before anybody could reach him.
“The question is: Why was he shot?
“In all the noise, the accusations and counter-accusations flung about by the BJP and opposition parties abot the shortage of fertiliers, this violent retaliation by the State on an unarmed mob will go unnoticed. We need to demand of the government a response as to why an unarmed individual who was not doing anything wrong was shot.
“Would the police train their guns on one of us tomorrow?”
Cartoon: courtesy Yathi/ Deccan Herald
Major General jee misses the whole point in bashing the government!
In all the video footage I saw of the violence, I saw jeans and T-Shirt wearing youth attacking police. Are these really farmers? or hired goonda of dissident BJP or other vested interests?
Another report said a mob attacked police, took their guns and shot in random for few minutes and later threw it and ran away. There are eyewitnesses to it.
We do not even know if police shot the person, so how can the respected Major General miss this point? In a week report will be out according to CM so why not wait till then instead of letting our imagination run wild?
Yeddi should take whole and sole responsibility of killing an innocent man. The BJP Govt is (was) under the impression that they can buy anything with the mining money they have.
Can they get the Life of this poor farmer back ??? Can the family be compensated with the loss ??
The govt should have acted in a responsible way and handled the situation in a rational way. Rather, yeddi spent time in Transferring the Officials, portfolio allocations, receiving felictations etc.
The home minister was busy attending functions in mangalore. ( This HM looks like a buffon. I don’t know how he will hadle the situation in future. )
Once the Golibar happened, yeddi took things seriously. Till then he was sailing in the clouds…..
It is pity that to make yeddi realise the seriousness of the issue, an innocent man has to sacrifised.
While the death of any individual is terrible, more so when he comes in between a rioting mob and police,this is not a case when the police took aim at an individual and shot him down deliberately.If there is large scale violence, burning buses and destroying private property they resort to teargas and finally shooting.I don’t know why the polce can’t use high pressure water to quell the mob.
ERR,
Namagilli Kudiyakke neer illa, inna mob chadurisakke yellinda neer tharana guru…
Major General, I share your exasperation over the manner in which a farmer lost his life in police firing in Haveri.
But, I don’t think Siddalinga Churi is the person, who was shown to be shot from the window of the stationary KSRP bus in the TV footage. The person, who received bullet injuries, may be the one, who is still battling for life.
Siddalinga Churi is the other person shown lying on the road a pool of blood. This was the man, who was put on a push cart by onlookers and wheeled away. The face of this person matches with the photograph of Siddalinga Churi.
The person shown in the television footage was wearing a dhoti and a scarf. Unlike Siddalinga Churi, who was wearing a pant. There were some newspaper reports that Siddalinga Churi was riding a scooter when he was hit by a bullet.
A lot of people have jumped to the conclusion that the person, who was shown to be hit by a bullet in the television footage is Siddalinga Churi. I don’t think so. If there is anyone, who shares my opinion or differs from it, please let us know.
But, Major General your concern is valid. My heart goes out to not only Siddalinga Churi, but also the person shown to have been hit with a bullet and is battling for life.
now it is clear who is the real mannina maga,
devegowda ,when he was P M handled the urea crisis with great maturity.
now compare this with bjp govt in karnataka.
BJP is the only party which can Karnataka a ramarajya.
daaku is back!
devegowda ,when he was P M handled the urea crisis with great maturity.
Understandable. High protein diet supposedly increases the Urea level.
Where did he get the analysis done?
Apollo or AIIMS?
Contrast this with Vajpayee! He went to Mumbai to get his knee operated!
Well handled, Gowdre!
Welcome back hallina daaktre- Churumuri loses some uppu-huli-khaara without you !
@ Doctre swalpa yechane madi, Nimma mannina Maga PM agiddu 1995 alli, Lot has changed from then, in terms production cost, economy, subsidy rates. Most of the fertlizer factories have reduced the production compared to last year. Fertilizer production and it’s distrubution is controlled by the Central, and it’s the corrupt Ram Vilas paswan who runs this ministry.
There are lot of factors to be considered for this shortage and riots.
As you can see from the TV footage the riots was clearly instigated.
Just because you get a farmer tag or minority tag does’nt give license to damage public property, loot shops. There are ways to protest. It’s clear that voilence was instigated by opposition. We saw this when Dr. RajKumar died. Congress has a very good record for this.
I agree with ” Desi Homospaien” about person shown in TV footage is not Siddalinga Churi.
@Gaby
You vanished from the other post and now landed here ….. :)
On the post:
Give BSY some time to get settled … it’s not even 10 days since he assumed office. He can’t solve every problem straight away!
BJP did not/does not act as responsible opposition anywhere.For price raises which is a global phenomenon they are trying to take the political advantage.
A Ideal opposition should have shown sympathy for Government position,But what is BJP doing?
If they(BJP) can control it,why the hell is State BJP government not showing any signs to curb down inflation by reducing down the vat taxes atleast on Diesel?
Why are the BJP supporters here shedding fake tears asking to co operate with Yeddi and his XXXX Shoba karandlaaje.
Home minister says that he did not know anything of Golibar at all.Any Golibar as per rules cannot happen without orders from home minister.
If police people forgot to get the permission of home minister,then no police officials are fired?
The truth is Home minister gave green signal for golibar and today they are trying to hide it by saying that he did not know at all.
sandesh,
Its not about giving time,its about consistency in statements comming from government.
BJP thinks that they can blame Central government for anything which they fail to handle.
Take example of fertilizers
Agriculture minister says : There is a shortage in fertilizers
Yedyurappa says : There is no shortage in fertilizers,its all rumors.
Next day Yeddi changes his statements
Yedyurappa says : There is a shortage,central is responsible for it
Yesterday Yeddi again softens his stand on this saying that early monsoons and officials are responsible for this.
What is happenning? IS Yedddi trying to fool us?
Steady On in Angrezi !!
Your standards are soooo high! Sorry Yeddi has failed the test and he should resign in a microsecond!! Kumaranna would have joined the family in a robust show of Grama Dukkha and what not! Wow how typical of that City-born and bred elite Yeddi to have not understood the nuances of Gramayana! Sigh!
These farmers were looting private property and the police took some ‘robust’ action. It was inevitable and sadly a bystander was killed! We all know hoarding is bad and horrible but the government can take action. Imagine the same run on shops in the rumor that there is no rice or wheat tomorrow on some unfounded rumors?!! Let’s keep our commonsense OK? I am perpetually amazed by the wisdom sprouted on the local print media by our gallant (I am assuming he was in the ‘regular’ army) Nine-Lakes Major General on all issues…he couldn’t resist being noticed. May be he is angling for an MP seat? I wouldn’t be surprised.
Sandesh it’s not about vanishing someplace and appearing elsewhere- much as I’d love to be I am not the Cheshire Cat sweetheart.
It’s not about time or consistency as far as I can see. it’s about prorities. When he came in as CM – he has to go off on his teertayaatre rather than sitting down to consider serious business- unless he thot he could have a cabinet meeting himself. Then he goes and puts up this performance of ‘ Kanneeru’ being photographed.
He wasnt naive to office. He was after all Deputy CM and Finance Minister for 20 months prior to Oct 2007. So the fertiliser crisis cant be a complete surprise- it’s clear that he did not care when he had to vist all the MUTTs and temples.
I would be interested in hearing any argument in his defence other than his being new to Governance or that the Gowda clan / Kaangis were no better.All Iam saying is that I am being pathologically cynical about politics and electoral democracy.
Gaby
I understand your arguments. In fact, most of us here probably are cynical about “democracy” that is practiced in India!! But all I am saying is, let us give Yeddi some more time to see what he does with the power.
Gaby,
Yes I agree with you Yeddi should have counted all the fertilizer bags himself! Shame on him! But who is saying there is a ‘crisis’? It is the usual classic game played by Congress and JDS peddas to make the best out of a normal situation. It has backfired that is all:)
Doddi Buddi,
No one said about crisis.Still thousands of Congress supporters stood in que to get fertalizer and waiting for a opportunity to burn public property.
And Siddalingappa churi was a congress supporter whom BJP decided to elliminate.
I this think News channel should broadcast this news to satisfy people like you.
JustLikeTHat!
I can feel your pain! It is not easy to have ‘lost’ power and now reduced to mouthing inanisms on behalf of ‘Tillers’ right?:) Heh heh reap what you sowed my friend…LOL
Yes DB, that is exactly what Yeddi should have done – count the bags of fertilisers- figuratively my friend! If there wasnt a crisis why was a man shot- was he innocent – if he was just part of a rioting mob why then go to put up a pretence in front of a grieving mother- he could have visited so many other MUTTs in that time- perhaps another Pooje to ward of black magic too!