Rescue team gets out body of worker trapped under debris of Maharani’s Science College old building
Mysuru: The body of a worker trapped under the debris of a part of the old building at the Maharani’s Science College for Women in the city was taken out post-midnight on Wednesday, with the rescue team putting in nine hours of effort searching for the worker.
The deceased worker is identified as Saddam (32), a resident of Ajeejsait Nagar in Mysuru.
The College is situated on Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Road and the authorities are getting the 108-year-old building renovated at a cost of Rs 54 crore. The structure, which was weakening, collapsed on Tuesday evening amidst its restoration work.
More than 100 personnel of the Fire and Emergency Services department, the Police Department, the Mysore City Corporation, and members of the NGO Humanitarian Relief Society joined to clear the debris and rescue the worker.
The body is learned to have been sighted at around 1.45 am on Wednesday and taken out by the team at around 2 am. The body was sent to the mortuary of the Mysore Medical College and Research Institute for the post-mortem examination, a rescue team member has said.
Saddam’s wife Aisha, 7-year-old and 2-year-old daughters, siblings and other relatives waited near the site throughout the search operation hoping that he would stay alive, but were distraught by the news.
In addition, local MLA K Harish Gowda, Deputy Commissioner G Lakshmikanth Reddy and City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar were present near the building site through the operation.
Thirteen workers were reportedly working on the first floor of the building. While only three of them were still working on the floor at the time of the mishap, two are known to have exited on hearing a strange noise but Saddam got stuck inside during the collapse, sources have 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.
