Gonda (UP) (PTI): Two boys, aged four and six, died after being stung by a swarm of bees in a village here while their grandmother, who was injured in the attack, has been hospitalised, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place at Madnapur village in the Mankapur area on Tuesday when Uttama (65) was out with her grandsons Yug (4) and Yogesh (6) and a swarm of bees attacked them, local SHO Sudhir Kumar Singh said.

All of them were rushed to a community health centre, where Yug died, he said.

Yogesh and Uttama were rushed to the district hospital. Yogesh also died during treatment while the condition of Uttama was stated to be stable, the official added.

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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.