Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 20 (ANI): After slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for being "jaundiced", Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched another attack on the party and said that those who killed Gandhi will not spare him.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 19 (ANI): A day after an "egg attack" against Opposition leader and Congress leader Siddaramaiah in Kodagu district, former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Veerappa Moily on Friday said that the rise of caste and communalism in Karnataka has stolen the peace of the people of the country.

Mysore (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): With the Karnataka Assembly elections scheduled for next year, state Congress chief DK Shivakumar on Tuesday asserted that the Congress has made chief ministers from almost all communities and therefore a Dalit can also become Chief Minister.

New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Former Karnataka chief minister M Veerappa Moily and former Tamil Nadu health minister H V Hande were conferred with lifetime achievement awards at the 12th edition of Sansad Ratna Awards on SaturdayNCPs Supriya Sule and BJDs Amar Patnaik are among 11 MPs who were honoured at the Sansad Ratna Awards 2022 under various categories the Prime Point Foundation said They were presented the awards by Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra at the Maharashtra Sadan A new feature of the 12th session of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee was the Lifetime Achievement APJ Abdul Kalam Award given to 95-year-old veteran MLA of the Tamil Nadu assembly Dr H V Hande a former health minister Former Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily veteran MLA and MP was also the recipient of this award the foundation saidAccording to the foundation Nationalist Congress Party NCP MP Sule Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP MP N K Premachandran and Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Appa Barne have been awarded the Sansad Vishisht Ratna award for their sustained outstanding performanceTrinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy West Bengal Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MPs Bidyut Baran Mahato Jharkhand Heena Vijayakumar Gavit Maharashtra and Sudhir Gupta Madhya Pradesh got the Sansad Ratna Award for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha it saidIn the Upper House Biju Janata Dal BJD MP Amar Patnaik Odisha and NCP MP Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan Maharashtra have been awarded for their performance in 2021 under the sitting members categoryCommunist Party of India Marxist MP K K Ragesh Kerala was awarded under the retired members in 2021 category for his outstanding performance during his full term in the Rajya Sabha it saidThe awardees were selected based on their cumulative performance from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha till the end of the winter session 2021 based on the data provided by PRS India Prime Point Foundations founding chairman K Srinivasan saidThe Sansad Ratna Awards Committee was chaired by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and co-chaired by T S Krishnamurthy former chief election commissioner of IndiaIn his acceptance speech Moily said the electoral reforms were necessary to ensure that money power did not come in the way of genuine candidates who struggled to muster the finances to contest electionsHe said the government should explore the concept of state funding of electionsThe awards were instituted on the suggestion of former president late APJ Abdul Kalam to honour the top-performing parliamentariansThe first award function was held in 2010 in Chennai and Kalam himself launched the initiative PTI VA CK

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 18 (ANI): Stating that Congress is a perennial party and is deeply rooted in the minds of people, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said that that the Congressmen should change their attitude in order to bring it back to power in the country.

Bengaluru Jan 27 PTI Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said on Thursday the Narendra Modi governments decision to confer Padma Bhushan on Ghulam Nabi Azad was a political one and not based on merit He said the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister should not accept the award if he thinks that it harms the interest of the Congress party Narendra Modi took a political decision Moily told PTI here They have taken a decision politically not weighing on any merit or otherwise Now its for him Azad to take a decision on whether to accept or decline the award The former Union Minister who was among the Congress group of 23 leaders who wrote to the party chief Sonia Gandhi in 2020 seeking internal reforms said Azad should think whether its in the interest of the party or not before accepting it Noting that Azad is a senior member of the Congress who had also served as Union Minister the former Karnataka Chief Minister said he has to weigh the pros and cons on whether accepting the award will harm the interest of the party PTI RS SS SS

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 13 (ANI): Former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday evening tested positive for COVID-19 and is under home quarantine.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 19 (ANI): Indian National Congress leader Veerappa Moily on Tuesday asserted that the Congress party will come to power in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the upcoming 2023 assembly elections.

Pune Sep 28 PTI Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said youth must actively participate in politics as they had an instrumental role in making Indian democracy the most efficient in the world He was speaking virtually at the valedictory session of the 11th Bhartiya Chhatra Sansad here He also said the colonial mindset must be broken in the country and issues like hunger poverty education health and livelihood have to be addressed Prakash Karat senior CPIM leader who also spoke on the occasion virtually said all efforts taken to transform India from nothing to a prosperous middle class country is an achievement PTI SPK BNM BNM BNM

New Delhi Sep 18 PTI Politician-writer M Veerappa Moily and poet Arundhathi Subramaniam were among the 20 authors who received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2020 at a ceremony here on Saturday While Moily received the prestigious award for his epic poetry Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam in Kannada Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection When God is a Traveller in English The other winners in poetry include Harish Meenakshi Gujarati Anamika Hindi RS Bhaskar Konkani Irungbam Deven Manipuri Rupchand Hansda Santali and Nikhileswar Telugu Nanda Khare Marathi Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam Sanskrit Imaiyam Tamil and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque bagged the award for their novels Apurba Kumar Saikia Assamese late Dharanidhar Owari Bodo late Hiday Koul Bharti Kashmiri Kamalkant Jha Maithili and Gurdev Singh Rupana Punjabi have received the award for short stories The Akademi has named Gian Singh Dogri and Jetho Lalwani Sindhi the winners for their plays while Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay popularly known as Shankar received the award for memoir Bengali The award which includes a casket containing an engraved copper plaque a shawl and an amount of Rs 100000 was presented at the award presentation function The executive board also announced the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2020 in 24 Indian languages on Saturday The English translation of Kannada novel Ghachar Ghochar written by Vivek Shanbhag and translated by Srinath Perur and the Hindi translation of Thiruvalluvars Thirukkural by T E S Raghwan won the award among 22 others The books were selected on the basis of recommendations made by the Selection Committees of three members each in the concerned languages in accordance with the rules and procedure laid down for the purpose the National Academy of Letters said in a statement The translation prize carries an amount of Rs 50000 and a copper plaque which will be presented to the translators of each of these books at a special function to be held sometime later this year it said PTI MAH SMN