UAE Princess reacts to Ramesh Bhiduri’s communal slur against Danish Ali in Lok Sabha
Dubai: Sheikha Hend bint Faisal Al Qasimi, a member of the United Arab Emirates' Royal family, has expressed her reaction to a video featuring BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri making derogatory comments about MP Kunwar Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha.
The UAE princess responded to the video, which was shared by Al Jazeera's English Twitter account, by posting a tweet. She remarked, "Who needs soaps with these people playing clowns in public."
The controversy unfolded when BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri used communal slurs against MP Kunwar Danish Ali, who represents the BSP, during the ongoing special session of the parliament on Thursday.
Sheikha Hend bint Faisal Al Qasimi's comment adds to the growing discussion surrounding the incident, with people both within and outside of India expressing their views on the matter
Who needs soaps with these people playing clowns in public
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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.
