Karnataka Minister jumps into lake to save six people

At a time when politicians are facing critiicsm across the country for not responding to people's problems, here's a heart-warming story of a politician in Karnataka who shows that he cares. Early on Tuesday morning, Karnataka Primary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar stopped his convoy when he noticed a car sinking in a lake near Shimoga and got in the men and machinery to save the lives of six persons in the car, including three children. Ratnakar was travelling from Thirthahalli to Bangalore around 6 am on Tuesday. On the way, his driver spotted a car and its passengers in distress in the Beguvalli lake.

The driver alerted the minister who recognised it as a car that had been speeding had overtaken his convoy just 15 minutes before the accident, in apparent haste to go towards Bhadravathi. However, the driver of the speeding car - Udaykumar, a businessman based in Bhadravati - seemed to have lost control and entered the five-feet-deep lake just off the road. The minister stopped his convoy immediately, got the members of his staff who could swim - his driver, his gunman and the driver of his escort vehicle - to jump in and rescue the stranded family. He too waded in part of the way to help bring back the rescued family. They rescued Uday's two children and his 3-year-old nephew from the sinking car first; then went back to help Uday, his wife and his mother out of the car and brought them back to the road. Ratnakar had by then called up district authorities and sent the family to the local primary health centre. Witnesses say if there had been a delay of even 10 minutes, the accident could have led to some casualties.
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