Karnataka government gives tax exemption to Kannada movie 'Daredevil Musthafa'

Vartha Bharati | 15-06-2023 | 22:36:00 IST

Bengaluru, Jun 15: The Karnataka government has decided to give tax exemption to Kannada movie 'Daredevil Musthafa', which is based on a short story by prominent writer late Poornachandra Tejaswi.

Debutant movie director Shashank Soghal had recently requested Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to grant tax exemption for the film.

With the chief minister granting tax exemption, the movie tickets will be exempted from State Goods and Service Tax (SGST).

''The movie carries the message of communal harmony and unity, and has won praise from people, Tejaswi's readers, fans and family, and they have wished that the movie and its message has to reach large masses,'' Soghal had stated in his letter to Siddaramaiah, while requesting him to make time to watch the movie.

Son of Rashtrakavi K V Puttappa, who was popularly known as Kuvempu, Tejaswi was a photographer, publisher, painter, naturalist, and environmentalist. He had made a great impression in the 'Navya' (new) period of Kannada literature and indulged in the 'Bandaaya Saahitya' genre of protest literature.

'Daredevil Musthafa', a crowd-funded film, with a mostly new cast and crew, was released on May 19.

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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka

13-05-2026 ¦ 13-05-2026 IST

R. Ashoka

Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.

Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.

He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.

Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.

He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.

Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.

He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.