Lineman electrocuted at Sullia
Sullia, August 15: A lineman was electrocuted while repairing an electric pole at Boliamajalu near here on Wednesday.
The deceased is identified as Janardhan Nayak (48) of Aletti village. He was working as a lineman on contract basis for the last 20 years at Sullia Mescom office. Along with him, his brother Harish Nayak was also working. Both of them were working at high tension line at Boliamajalu since morning. When the incident happened, both of them were working in a single electric pole. While Harish Nayak was in the middle of the pole, Janardhan was repairing the electric wires on the top of the pole. When the Mescom permanent linemen suddenly charged the line at this moment, Janardhan Nayak was electrocuted and he burnt alive on the electric pole.
Sullia Mescom AEE and the police visited the spot. Later, the body was shifted to the government hospital. Sullia police registered a case. Janardhan Nayak survived by his wife and a daughter.
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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.
