T'gana State Election Commission launches mobile app for Gram Panchayat polls
Hyderabad, Nov 27 (PTI): The Telangana State Election Commission on Thursday launched a mobile application which enables voters to download details of their polling station and also to lodge complaints in regard to the Gram Panchayat elections to be held in December.
The Commission said voters can download their voter slip and polling station details and upload complaints using the app. The progress of their complaints can also be tracked.
The 'Te-poll Mobile App' is available on PlayStore, it said in a release.
The Commission on November 25 announced a three-phased schedule for gram panchayat elections in the state to be held on December 11, 14, and 17.
Following the recent bypoll to the Jubilee Hills assembly constituency, the elections are seen as a test of popularity for major parties—ruling Congress, BJP, and BRS—even though the polls are conducted on a non-party basis.
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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.
