Congress MP Preneet Kaur attends BJP poll meet, seeks votes for husband Amarinder Singh
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Patiala (Punjab), Feb 13: Congress MP Preneet Kaur on Saturday attending a meeting of the BJP here and sought votes for her husband Amarinder Singh in the Punjab assembly polls.
Amarinder Singh had floated his own party Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) after he was unceremoniously removed as the chief minister by the Congress high command last year following a bitter tussle with party's state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Kaur, the MP from Patiala, attended the BJP's meeting, which had been organised for the saffron party's ally Amarinder Singh.
Amarinder Singh-led PLC, the BJP and the SAD (Sanyukt) are fighting the state polls in alliance.
The former chief minister is contesting the elections as Punjab Lok Congress nominee from his traditional seat Patiala (Urban).
Saturday's meeting was organised at Sirhindi Gate here.
"I have come to you to appeal for Amarinder Singh as your family member," Kaur said, seeking votes for her husband.
The move of Preneet, who has been staying away from campaigning for the Congress, has raised speculations about her next political step.
A few days ago, Congress nominee from Patiala (Urban) Vishnu Sharma had asked Kaur to either campaign for the party or resign.
"I am with my family. The family is above everything," Kaur had said on Thursday when reporters asked her why she was "silent" during the elections.
The Congress had in November last year issued her a show-cause notice seeking an explanation from her for alleged "anti-party activities".
When asked about it, Kaur had told reporters on Thursday that she did not receive any such notice and had only read about it in newspapers and on social media.
The notice should otherwise have come from the party general secretary, she had 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.
