Home Guard rescued from suicide attempt in Tumakuru after alleged workplace pressure
Tumakuru: In a dramatic rescue operation, a home guard in Tumakuru city, who was allegedly driven to attempt suicide due to workplace pressures imposed by his senior, was prevented from taking his own life by local fire brigade staff members and police officers.
The home guard, identified as Jayanna and hailing from Koratagere town, reportedly climbed a banyan tree located on the premises of the Home Guards office near Kyatasandra in Tumakuru on Tuesday morning, with the intention of ending his life. Before taking this drastic step, he had sent messages to friends on both Facebook and WhatsApp, expressing his inability to bear the alleged torment inflicted by his superior.
Upon receiving information about Jayanna's messages and his actions on the office premises, personnel from the local fire brigade and the police responded. They managed to not only pacify Jayanna but also convinced him to descend from the tree, thus averting a tragedy.
A case pertaining to this incident has been registered at the Kyatasandra Police Station, and further investigation is currently underway.
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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.
