Two groups clash over old animosity in Shivamogga; five stabbed during fight, hospitalised
Shivamogga: Five men were injured, having been stabbed with knives, in a clash between two groups, following old animosity, near the LIC office at Alkola Circle, Shivamogga, late Thursday night.
Two groups, led by Pavan and Kiran, learned to have been friends earlier, had a clash on Thursday night at the Netaji Circle under the jurisdiction of the Tunga Nagar Police Station in Shivamogga in the backdrop of the animosity between the old friends. Pavan and his supporters allegedly stabbed Kiran and his group members during the tussle.
The injured men were immediately admitted to the McGann Hospital in Shivamogga for treatment.
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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.
