Shivamogga: Three boys drown in tank
Shivamogga, June 3: Three boys who have gone for a swim in a tank at Tammadihalli village in the taluk on Sunday afternoon drowned.
The deceased boys are identified as Chiranth (14), Vasanth (14) and Ajay (12) of Tammadihalli village. Knowing that the boys were drowning, the villagers rushed to the spot. But before they reach the tank, the boys were drowned. The bodies were fished out of the water. The Kumsi police who visited the spot took the bodies to McGann Hospital for postmortem.
As today is Sunday, around eight boys have gone for a swim at Janglikere on the outskirts of the village. Because of the monsoon rains, the rainwater collected in the tank. But the boys, who were unaware of the depth of the tank in some places, drowned in the water accidentally and died, it is 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.
