Two abandoned baby girls found in Gonda, one dead
Gonda (UP) (PTI): Two newborn baby girls were found abandoned in separate places in the city and one of them was later declared dead, officials said on Wednesday.
They said one of them was found with her umbilical cord still attached at a washroom of the surgical ward of the Babu Ishwar Sharan district hospital by a sanitation worker on Tuesday.
The baby was later admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where she is undergoing treatment, Chief Medical Superintendent Dr VK Gupta said. Her condition is stated to be out of danger, the official added.
The other baby was found in a heap of garbage near a nursing home in the Vishnupuri locality in the Civil Lines area, police said.
She was taken to a hospital, where doctors declared her dead, they said.
Local SHO Sanjay Gupta said the body was sent for a post-mortem examination and further action will follow.
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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.
