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Karnataka News Updates: CM Basavaraj Bommai meets PM Modi
Bengaluru, July 30: New Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today. Earlier in the day, Bommai had met Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
This is his first visit to the national capital after taking over as chief minister of the state.
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Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai seeks PM Modi to approve AIIMS for Hubballi-Dharwad & AIIMS like institute for Raichur, identified as an aspirational dist by NITI Aayog. He also appealed to PM to upgrade ESIC Medical College & Hospital in Kalaburagi to regional AIIMS-like Institute: Karnataka CMO
Karnataka records 1,890 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours
Covid numbers in Karnataka today:
— Dr Sudhakar K (@mla_sudhakar) July 30, 2021
💠 New cases in Karnataka:1,890
💠 New cases in Bengaluru: 426
💠 Positivity rate: 1.30%
💠 Discharges: 1,631 (Blore- 366)
💠 Today's Deaths: 34 (Blore- 09)
💠 Active cases in State: 23,478
💠 Total tests today:1,45,197
"Despite being a former Chief Minister, I was part of Yediyurappa''s cabinet because Yediyurappa is our senior and tallest leader of the party and I was Minister under him earlier too, there was no uneasiness there. But in today''s situation I''m a senior leader, so I''m not joining," he said, adding that not just because it is Bommai, if anyone else would have become CM also, his decision would have been the same.
"I have told him (Shettar) that I will come and speak to him personally. We have close bonding as we have grown together. We were friends even before we came to politics, so I have good regard, love and affection towards him and he too has similar feelings for me. We had a good relationship even when we were in different parties," he said.
Earlier in the day speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, in response to a question about pressure on him from Ministerial aspirants, he said, "it is common. Once someone becomes the CM and has to expand the cabinet, it is common." He also said that the Prime Minister spoke to him over phone on Wednesday and wished him all the best, as he also expressed hopes of good administration from him.
After K'taka sees steep spike in Covid-19 cases, CM Bommai says need to tighten borders, compulsory testing
Amid rising Covid cases in Karnataka, new state chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said there is a need to tighten the borders and take measures to put in place compulsory testing to stop the spread of the virus.
"We need to take measures to further strengthen our health infrastructure. The priority is to stop the spread of the disease,"he added. Karnataka reported 2,052 fresh cases of COVID-19 and 35 deaths on Thursday, taking the total number of infections to 29,01,247 and the toll to 36,491.
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