BJP insulting Kalaburagi students over SSLC results, hurting their confidence: Priyank Kharge
Bengaluru: Rural Development Minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday accused the BJP of insulting students of Kalaburagi district by targeting the district’s SSLC results on social media, and said such remarks were damaging the morale and confidence of children.
Reacting through a post on X, Kharge expressed displeasure over criticism by the BJP regarding Kalaburagi’s performance in the SSLC examination results.
He said the district may have recorded an 85 per cent pass percentage, but the result was better than the previous academic year.
Kharge said students of Kalaburagi have the ability to improve educational standards in both the district and the state, and expressed confidence that they would do so.
He alleged that by repeatedly mocking children of Kalaburagi, the BJP was displaying both political bankruptcy and moral bankruptcy.
Kharge further asked whether the BJP was also branding children of its own leaders and workers in Kalaburagi as “dull students.”
He said making such statements that negatively affect the minds of children showed a lack of basic common sense.
The minister said the BJP should stop insulting the hard work, intellectual ability and confidence of Kalaburagi students.
“If you have a problem, criticise me. Why are you mocking the children of Kalaburagi?” he asked.
In the SSLC results announced on Thursday, Kalaburagi district stood last in the state with a pass percentage of 85.06.
Referring to this, the Karnataka BJP unit had posted on X taking a swipe at Kharge, asking where the “great wisdom” was after the SSLC results were declared.
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Punjab: 15-year-old girl gives birth to baby months after alleged rape
Chandigarh (PTI): A 15-year-old girl has delivered a baby in Jalandhar, months after she was allegedly raped by a boy in Amritsar, police said on Thursday.
The class 9 student has been living with her aunt in Jalandhar for the past seven months, said the aunt who filed the complaint of rape to the police.
When contacted over phone on Thursday, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Phillaur, Bharat Masih said, "We have registered a Zero FIR in the matter as the alleged rape took place in Amritsar.." He said the accused is 16 years old.
The victim's aunt said in her complaint that a month and a half back, the teenager complained of abdominal pain, due to which, she was taken for a checkup to a private doctor in Jalandhar's Nurmahal. The doctor prescribed some medicines, she said.
On April 19, the girl complained of severe abdominal pain, after which she took the teenager to a private hospital in Phillaur in Jalandhar. The doctor there referred the girl to another hospital, where she was told that she was pregnant.
Later, she gave birth to a baby in the hospital. When the girl's aunt asked her about her pregnancy, she said that a boy in Amritsar who lived in her locality had raped her, the complainant said.
A police station under Jalandhar Rural police jurisdiction has registered a Zero FIR in the matter and the boy has been booked under relevant provisions of the POCSO Act and the BNS on April 20, police said.
A Zero FIR is an FIR that can be filed in any police station, irrespective of place of incident/jurisdiction and the same can be later transferred to the appropriate police station.
