21-year-old teacher killed, three injured in Haryana amusement park accident
Ambala (Haryana), Feb 19: A 21-year-old teacher was killed while three others, including two students, were injured in an accident during a Ferris wheel ride at an amusement park here on Saturday, police said.
A case of negligence has been registered against the owner of the amusement park, they said.
Of the three injured, one was a teacher and the remaining two were girl students. They were rushed to MM Medical Hospital at Mullana.
The amusement park, located in Manka Manki village, around 20 km from Ambala Cantonment, operates several swings and rides. Generally, students and their teachers from nearby schools visit the amusement park for picnics, especially on weekends.
According to the police, around 20 students of a private school from Barara, had come to the amusement park with some women teachers on Saturday morning. They were seated in different boxes of the wheel, but as soon as their ride was set into motion, the door of one of the boxes collapsed and the occupants fell down.
It could not be ascertained whether the victims had fastened their seat belts appropriately.
People present at the amusement park carried out the rescue operation, and the facility was shut down by the police soon after.
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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.
