BK Hariprasad will face consequences of insult to CM Siddaramaiah, says Minister MB Patil
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries MB Patil has criticized senior Congress member BK Hariprasad for indirectly demeaning Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, saying that the national leaders of the Congress party were noticing such actions and would soon take appropriate action in the matter.
Patil, who addressed reporters on Monday, said, "Hariprasad is a senior leader of the Congress, who has held posts of the General Secretary of the AICC and also the leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha and the Karnataka Legislative Council. As such, such words demeaning Siddaramaiah do not befit him. The national leaders of the party will not sideline the matter but take action against Hariprasad."
The minister, who is the Chairperson of the Karnataka Congress Campaign Committee, also said, "Hariprasad is close to all senior and national-level leaders, including former presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge, State Unit In-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala and Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal. He should have remembered to discuss a matter related to the party in confidentiality with them; instead he made his comments on the Chief Minister publicly. Hariprasad will have to face the consequences of his faulty move."
Patil clarified before the media that there was no internal quarrel in the Congress in the state, adding that the differences between the members would be sorted out.
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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.
