IMD forecast: Rains likely to lash over coastal, interior pockets of Karnataka for the next two days
Bengaluru: The Indian Meteorological Department on Tuesday predicted the possibility of good rainfall over the Coastal and Interior Districts of the state on September 27 and 28.
Furthermore, the IMD has cautioned that certain regions within Bagalkot, Gadag, Haveri, Dharwad, and Belgaum districts in the northern interior region may experience heavy rain accompanied by lightning and thunder.
In Bengaluru city, the weather is expected to be predominantly cloudy. There is a high possibility of rain, accompanied by thunder.
As of 8:30 AM on Wednesday, over the past 24 hours, Thondebhavi in Chikkaballapur district received 5 cm of rainfall. Similarly, Gokarna in Uttara Kannada, Sindagi in Vijayapura, Bidar, and Ballari's Kempli in North Karnataka recorded 4 cm of rainfall during the same period.
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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.
