Shajapur(PTI): Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar's daughter-in-law allegedly committed suicide at her residence in Shajapur district, an official said.

Savita Parmar (22), the wife of Devraj Parmar, took the extreme step by hanging herself around 9 pm on Tuesday at her home in Pochaner village, Avantipur Badodia police station in-charge Pradeep Vaskale said on Wednesday.

The reason behind the extreme step was not clear, he said.

After an autopsy on Wednesday morning, the woman's last rites were performed in the Pochaner village, the official said.

BJP's Shajapur district media in-charge Vijay Joshi expressed condolence on the demise of Inder Singh Parmar's daughter-in-law.

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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.