Mangaluru: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar passes away
Mangaluru, May 16: Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar , wife of Late K.A Muhammad Soofi Banakal passed away on Wednesday evening at her son's house in Kaikamba, Mangaluru. She was 77.
Born and brought up in Uppinangady of Dakshina Kannada District, Hawwa was the first Muslim girl to pursue high school education in her town at a time when Muslim girls were hardly getting formal education in Coastal Karnataka.
A voracious reader of Islamic literature in Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu languages, Hawwa learnt Quranic Arabic at an early age through self-study. In 2013, Mangaluru based publishing house Shanthi Prakashana had felicitated her as part of its silver jubilee celebration for her three decade long efforts towards promoting Islamic literature among Kannada readers.
She is survived by six sons and three daughters including NRI activist Iqbal Soofi and Writer Sharafuddin Soofi. Her funeral will be conducted on Thursday at Huda Masjid, Nekkilady, Uppinangady, said her family sources.
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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.
