Man killed in wild elephant attack in Chamarajanagar, another injured
Chamarajanagar: A 40-year-old man was killed on the spot after being attacked by a wild elephant while traveling on a forest road near Meenyam in Hanur taluk on Tuesday.
The deceased, identified as Muniyappa, was a resident of Koppa village. He and his companion, Kulluchcha, were on their way from Koppa to Odiyarpalya, where they worked as farm laborers. While passing through the forest, a wild elephant suddenly attacked them.
Muniyappa sustained severe injuries and died instantly, while Kulluchcha lost consciousness. Forest personnel on patrol discovered the incident and alerted senior officials. Authorities rushed to the scene and shifted Kulluchcha to Chamarajanagar District Hospital for treatment.
Hospital sources confirmed that Kulluchcha has regained consciousness and is recovering.
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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.
