Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Veerappa Moily has announced his retirement from active politics. However, he assured to work for Raksha Ramaiah, the Congress candidate from Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha seat. Moily, who was the Chief Minister of Karnataka from November 1992 to December 1994, announced his retirement from active politics in Chikkaballapur.
Moily wanted ticket from this seat
Congress leader Moily (84) was seeking Lok Sabha ticket from Chikkaballapur. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he said that he would work for Ramaiah as a Congress worker. Moily was the minister for various departments including petroleum and natural gas in the United Progressive Alliance-2 government.
Came in the news at the time of Ramlala’s consecration
The Prime Minister of the country had observed a strict fast for the consecration of the statue of Ramlala in Ayodhya. Before his consecration, PM Modi had performed rigorous rituals for 11 days from 12 to 22 January and during this he had consumed only coconut water. After the Pran Pratistha was over, he broke his fast by taking Charanamrit ritually. Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Moily had given a controversial statement regarding this ritual of PM Modi.
Veerappa Moily had sarcastically said that if this has happened then it is no less than a miracle. Moily had said that if the PM has not performed religious rituals then he has defiled the sanctum sanctorum. When I was taking a morning walk with a doctor, he told me that it is not possible for a person to survive like this, if he is alive then it is a miracle, that is why I doubt that he would have kept a fast. If they have entered the sanctum without fasting then it has become impure and it is not possible for energy to flow from there. (Input: also from language)
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