Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's father Yugandhar dead
Hyderabad, Sep 13: Former bureaucrat B N Yugandhar, father of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, died here on Friday.
He was 82.
Yugandhar had served in the Prime Minister's Office during late P V Narasimha Rao's regime and also as director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration at Mussorie.
He died this afternoon, sources close to him said.
Yugandhar had not been keeping well for some time now, they said.
His wife had predeceased him and Satya Nadella is their only child, the sources said.
Yugandhar, a 1962 batch IAS officer, had also served as secretary in the Union Rural Development Ministry.
As member of the erstwhile Planning Commission, he was instrumental in getting an entire chapter on disability issues included in the Plan, official sources said.
Condoling Yugandhar's death, Telangana Chief Secretary S K Joshi told PTI that "He (Yugandhar) was the doyen of IAS officers and a jewel in the crown of civil services officers."
Recalling his association with Yugandhar, former union home secretary K Padmanabhaiah said, "He (Yugandhar) was a committed and brilliant officer. He used to inspire young IAS officers. He had Left-oriented ideas... It is a loss for all of us."
President of Telangana IAS officers Association B P Acharya condoled the death of the illustrious civil servant.
"He (Yugandhar) is a role model for the young officers to emulate in terms of his contributions to the field of rural development. May his 'atma' (soul) attain 'sadgati' (salvation), he said in a statement.
Condoling the death of Yugandhar, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the departed soul was a sincere officer known for simplicity.
He conveyed his "heartfelt condolences" to the members of the bereaved family, "especially Sri Yugandhar's son and Microsoft CEO Sri Satya Nadella", a release from Chief Minister's office said.
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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.
