Punjab polls: Arvind Kejriwal's wife, daughter to seek votes for brother-in-law Mann in Dhuri
Chandigarh, Feb 10: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal's wife and daughter will visit Dhuri in Punjab seat on Friday to seek votes for party's candidate and chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann for the February 20 state assembly polls.
Mann is fighting the elections from the Dhuri assembly constituency.
Tomorrow I am going to Dhuri with my daughter to seek votes for my 'devar' Bhagwant Mann, Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi.
Replying to her tweet, Mann said, Bhabhi ji, welcome to Punjab...people of Dhuri are eagerly waiting for you.
Talking to reporters in Amritsar, Mann said he was happy that she was coming to Dhuri.
The Congress has fielded sitting legislator Dalvir Singh Goldy, while the Shiromani Akali Dal has nominated Parkash Chand Garg from the Dhuri assembly seat.
Dhuri is one of the assembly constituencies of the Sangrur Parliamentary seat, from where Mann is a two-time MP.
Voting for Punjab's 117 assembly seats will be held on February 20 and the counting will take place on March 10.
कल बेटी के साथ अपने देवर भगवंत मान के लिए वोट माँगने धूरी जा रही हूँ।
— Sunita Kejriwal (@KejriwalSunita) February 10, 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.
