KRS asks ED to investigate allegations against Hindutva activist Chaithra Kundapura
The Karnataka Rashtra Samithi (KRS) party has lodged a formal complaint with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) regarding the alleged fraud involving Hindutva activist Chaithra Kundapura. The complaint calls for an investigation into the individuals implicated in the case, including businessman Govinda Babu Poojary, who claims to have been swindled of Rs 5 crore by the activist and her associates. The promise made was to secure him the BJP ticket during the last assembly elections.
In its complaint submitted to the ED, the KRS party contendeds that many national parties, including the BJP, lack internal democracy and transparency in the selection process for their candidates. They argued that such lack of transparency has allowed illegal activities to persist within these parties, with the Chaithra Kundapura case serving as just one example.
The party emphasized the need for national parties to take this matter seriously and consider it as a larger issue. They asserted that minor incidents like the Chaithra Kundapura case may only scratch the surface of corrupt political activities and the accumulation of black money within these parties. Therefore, the party urged the ED to thoroughly investigate these allegations to prevent major players in the political game from evading legal consequences.
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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.
