{"id":311567,"date":"2019-04-22T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311567"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:03:00","slug":"4-jds-workers-killed-in-sri-lanka-blasts-says-hd-kumaraswamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/4-jds-workers-killed-in-sri-lanka-blasts-says-hd-kumaraswamy\/","title":{"rendered":"4 JDS workers killed in Sri Lanka blasts, says HD Kumaraswamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311568 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kumaraswamy-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/kumaraswamy-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/kumaraswamy.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said that four workers from the JD(S) were among the hundreds killed in Sunday&#8217;s blasts in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He expressed &#8220;immense sorrow&#8221; on behalf of his party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am deeply pained at the loss of our people in the #Colombo attacks. Out of the seven missing after the #TerrorAttack, four have been declared dead. Their names are &#8211; Lakshmana Gowda Ramesh &#8211; K M Lakshminarayan &#8211; M Rangappa &#8211; KG Hanumantharayappa,\u201d Kumaraswamy tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a series of tweets, Kumaraswamy confirmed that the four party men were part of a seven-member team of JDS workers from Karnataka who were touring Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll victims were #JDS workers from Karnataka and were on a tour to #SriLanka. I am deeply pained at the loss of their lives in the heinous attack. They were also committed workers of our party and their death has brought immense sorrow to us,\u201d Kumaraswamy tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three others who are missing have been identified as H ShivuKumar, A Maregowda and H Puttaraju.\u201d The Chief Secretary\u2019s office is in constant touch with the Resident Commissioner at Karnataka Bhavan, New Delhi, and the families of the victims and the missing persons for further information on them,\u201d Kumaraswamy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister further said, \u201cI am with their families and pray to the Almighty to give strength for the families and near and dear ones to bear this grief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, confirming the presence of the JD-S team in Sri Lanka\u2019s Colombo, Kumaraswamy had tweeted: \u201cI am shocked to hear that a 7-member team of JDS workers from Karnataka, who were touring Colombo, has gone missing after the bomb blasts in #colombo. Two of them are feared killed in the terror strike. I\u2019am in constant touch with the Indian High Commission on the reports of those missing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday said that four workers from the JD(S) were among the hundreds killed in Sunday&#8217;s blasts in Sri Lanka. He expressed &#8220;immense sorrow&#8221; on behalf of his party. \u201cI am deeply pained at the loss of our people in the #Colombo attacks. Out of the seven missing after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311569,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567\/revisions\/311569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}