Car hits roadside tree, topples on NH 50 as driver loses control in Vijayapura: 3 dead, 2 injured
Vijayapura: Three youngsters traveling in a car died on the spot and two others were injured in an accident where the car toppled on the road after hitting a tree beside the National Highway 50 stretch near Kannala Cross in the taluk.
The victims of the accidents are identified as Abhishek Sawant (23), Vijaykumar Aurangabad (24) and Raju Biradar (23). The two others injured in the accident are being treated in hospital.
The group of five had reportedly traveled to Solapur in the car and was returning home, when the accident occurred. The car is learned to have hit the roadside tree and toppled on the road as the driver lost control over the vehicle on the stretch.
Vijayapura Rural Police Station paid a visit to the accident site for an inspection.
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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.
