Chikkamagaluru: Naxal Ravindra likely to surrender in coming week: Sources
Chikkamagaluru: Naxal Ravindra, who has been active near Kigga in Sringeri taluk, is reportedly preparing to surrender to authorities. Ravindra, who had been in hiding for some time, reached out to members of the Citizens for Peace Forum and is expected to formally surrender within the next week.
This follows a series of surrenders in the state, including an event on January 8, where six Naxals gave up their arms in the presence of the Chief Minister in Bengaluru. Prior to this, there were rumors that Ravindra had fled to Kerala or Tamil Nadu, which had created uncertainty regarding his intentions.
Ravindra had been out of touch with the members of the Citizens for Peace Forum and the Naxal Rehabilitation Committee, delaying his surrender process. However, now that he has established contact, the process of his surrender is moving forward.
The surrender of Ravindra could mark a significant step in ending the two-decade-long Naxal movement in the state.
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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.
