Protest against Sastan Toll Plaza: Hundreds of protesters detained
Udupi: National Highway Awareness Committee on Monday staged a protest against the collection of toll from the vehicles registered with Udupi in front of Sastan Toll Plaza.
District in-charge Minister Dr Jayamala said that a meeting will be convened on November 28 in connection with the toll collection as the highway is not completed yet. The protesters demanded that the toll should not be collected by KA 20 registration vehicles until the ministers meet in this regard is held.
Meanwhile, police held hundreds of protesters who disrupted the toll collection.
President of the National Highway Awareness Committee Pratap Shetty, District Lorry Owner's Association President Rajesh Kaveri and committee Secretary Vittala Poojary led the protest.
Udupi Tahsildar Pradeep Kurdekar, district Additional Superintendent of Police Kumarachandra, DySPs Jaisankar and Dinesh Kumar were present.
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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.
