Gwalior violence: Five FIRs against 700 people; cops suspect role of Gurjar event organisers
Gwalior (PTI): Cases have been registered against 700 people after a crowd attending a Gurjar meet went on the rampage in Gwalior city of Madhya Pradesh a day before and a tight vigil is being maintained, police said on Tuesday.
The crowd damaged vehicles and hurled stones, prompting the police to resort to lathi-charge, officials had said.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rishikesh Meena on Tuesday said five FIRs were registered in three police stations against around 700 people. He said at least 20 people are named in the FIRs in connection with rioting and damaging government properties.
Rioters are being identified and they will be arrested, he told reporters.
He said conditional permission was given for holding the public meeting in the Phul Bagh locality to a community on Monday.
"By creating a ruckus, they violated the conditions of the permission and it seems that incident occurred with the tacit approval of organisers," the police officer said.
On Monday, participants of the gathering created a ruckus at the district collectorate and when police tried to stop them, they threw stones at parked vehicles. Police cane-charged the violent crowd and also lobbed tear gas shells.
Before the violence, Jaswant Singh, Gurjar Samaj office-bearer and one of the organisers of the event, had claimed atrocities had been committed against his community for long.
"The statue of Gurjar king Mihir Bhoj is covered with a tin shed, which should be removed. Political parties should field candidates from the community as per population," he had said and demanded the formation of a Gurjar regiment in the Army and an inquiry into the alleged fake encounter of a youth from the community in Morena.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP 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.
