Cauvery water row: Congress government in Karnataka is a slave of Stalin, alleges BJP
Bengaluru: The Karnataka unit of the BJP has severely criticized the state government for letting the Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, calling the Karnataka state government a 'slave of the Stalin government in Tamil Nadu', in a post on its official X account.
On Friday, the BJP Karnataka posted in reference to the state government and Cauvery water row, "Kannadigas are greatly upset and scornful of the Congress government, which came to power speaking highly of the valour, achievement, greatness and self-pride of Kannadigas during the campaigns for the Assembly elections but is betraying the people of the state when they are in need. The Congress government is merely a slave of MK Stalin's government of Tamil Nadu and working against Karnataka."
Criticizing the state government further in relation to the Cauvery water issue, the state unit has said, "The Congress government, which had used the card of existence and respect of the people of Karnataka prior for the election campaign, has auctioned the life and honour of Kannadigas by letting the Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. All these are acts of betrayal against Karnataka."
BJP Karnataka also accused the Congress government of Karnataka of failing to argue appropriately in favour of Kannadigas in the Cauvery water issue merely to save the INDIA bloc and please Rahul Gandhi. "Siddaramaiah or representatives of the Karnataka government did not bother to hold discussions and convince the Tamil Nadu government of the struggle for water in Karnataka," the state unit posted on X.
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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.
