Hate, Polarisation winning in Gujarat, says Mahatma Gandhi's grandson
Ahmedabad: The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi on Thursday said Hate and Polarisation were winning in Gujarat in the wake of BJP’s sweeping victory in the Gujarat Assembly polls.
Tushar who is also an author took to his Twitter handle on Thursday morning following early trends projecting a historic majority for BJP in Gujarat and added that hate and polarization was winning in the state.
BJP is expected to win more than 150 seats in Gujarat while Congress is projected to be limited to less than 20 seats. AAP who is debuting in the state is also expected to win at least five seats.
The official results are yet to be declared by the Election Commission.
Hate and Polarisation winning in Gujarat.
— Tushar (@TusharG) December 8, 2022
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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.
