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Cong MLA resigns over taluks’ exclusion from drought-hit list

Cong MLA resigns over taluks’ exclusion from drought-hit list

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Cong MLA resigns over taluks’ exclusion from drought-hit list

Congress MLA Yashvanta Rayagouda V Patil resigned from the Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday after the government left Indi and Chadchan taluks in his Vijayapura constituency out of the list of drought affected areas, saying he could no longer do justice to voters who had elected him.

After MLA resigns, taluk added to drought-hit list

Vijayapura’s Indi taluk was placed on Karnataka’s ground truthing list for drought assessment on Thursday, a day after Congress MLA Yashvanta Rayagouda V Patil submitted his resignation over its exclusion from the drought affected areas.