Mangaluru: DK crosses 300-mark of COVID-19 deaths, nears 10k-mark of total cases
Mangaluru: Five more people died in Dakshina Kannada on Friday of COVID-19 while the district also reported 202 new cases of the virus in the last 24 hours. With the five new deaths, Dakshina Kannada breached the 300-mark of COVID-19 deaths. The total number of fatalities in the district due to the virus stands at 301.
With 202 new cases, the total number of cases reported in the district has neared the 10,000-mark and the total number of cases reported so far stands at 9,914.
Among the 202 patients who tested positive for the deadly virus on Friday 139 belonged to Mangaluru Taluk, 35 from Bantwal, 11 from Puttur, 3 from Sullia, 4 from Belthangady. 10 other patients were from other districts.
64 people also recovered from the virus and were discharged from the hospitals. With 7,193 recoveries and 301 deaths, the district has 2,420 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.
