Mangaluru: BJP State President Nalin Kumar Kateel reacts to Wednesday's Mall assault
Says eve-teasing and harassment will not be tolerated under BJP government
Mangaluru: Karnataka State BJP President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar, on Thursday added that the incidents of eve-teasing and harassment will not be tolerated in the BJP government in the state.
The statement from the BJP leader came in the wake of Wednesday’s incident in the city when a young man was attacked by a group of college students after he called India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.
Nalin Kumar tweeted “Eve-teasing and incidents of harassment has no place in the state under BJP government. We will not allow anybody to hamper with peace and harmony of the state”.
ಫೋರಮ್ ಮಾಲ್ ಘಟನೆಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಇಬ್ಬರು ದುಷ್ಕರ್ಮಿಗಳನ್ನು ಬಂಧಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಯುವತಿಯರನ್ನು ಚುಡಾಯಿಸುವ ಹಾಗೂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನಿಸಿದಾಗ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ನಡೆಸುವ ಪ್ರಕರಣಗಳನ್ನು ಸಹಿಸಲು ಬಿಜೆಪಿ ಸರ್ಕಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವಕಾಶವಿಲ್ಲ. ಮತಾಂಧರನ್ನು ಮಟ್ಟ ಹಾಕಲು ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಬದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಆಶ್ವಾಸನೆ ನೀಡುತ್ತೇನೆ.
— Nalinkumar Kateel (@nalinkateel) September 26, 2019
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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.
