COVID-19: Udupi reports 241 new cases, 229 recoveries on Saturday
Udupi: The district on Saturday reported 241 new cases of Coronavirus taking the total number of cases in the district to 7738. 229 people in the district also recovered from the virus and were discharged from the hospitals.
Of the 241 new cases reported on Sunday, 138 patients were residents of Udupi Taluk, 70 from Kundapur Taluk, 30 from Karkala Taluk.
127 of the 241 patients were male and 114 were female patients tested positive for the virus in the district, district health officials informed.
With 5101 total recoveries so far, the district now has 2560 active cases.
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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.
