Metro train services to start at 6 am on Republic Day in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Jan 24 (PTI) Metro train services will start functioning from 6 am on January 26 from all four terminals, including Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Station, Majestic, instead of 7 am, officials said on Friday.
Additionally, 20 extra trips will be added on Republic Day on both the Green and Purple Lines to accommodate commuters travelling to the Lalbagh Flower Show and the special event at BIEC, Madavara, they added.
"Passengers can travel to Lalbagh Metro Station and return using tokens, contactless smart cards, National Common Mobility Cards, and QR tickets. At Lalbagh Metro Station, BMRCL will issue flat Rs 30 paper tickets from 10 am to 8 pm for the quick movement of passengers, instead of tokens," the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) said in a statement.
The paper tickets will be valid for travel from Lalbagh Metro Station to any Metro Station on the day of purchase, the statement added.
Tokens will not be issued at Lalbagh Metro Station during this period, the BMRCL said.
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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.
