Another body of landslide victim recovered from Talacauvery in Kodagu
Madikeri: One more body was retrieved from the debris of a landslide at Talacauvery in rain hit Kodagu district of Karnataka on Saturday, police said.
With this, bodies of three people have been recovered.
According to police, the victim has been identified as Ravi Kiran, 21, one of the assistant temple priests who stayed at the house of chief priest Narayana Achar whose body was retrieved recently.
The deceased was a native of Delambadi village of Kasaragod district of Kerala, police said.
The district administration has said the search operations for the other two missing people including Shanta, wife of Narayanachar and another assistant priest Srinivas Padilya will continue.
Meanwhile, the district in-charge minister V Somanna on Friday visited Talacauvery Temple and took part in the religious rituals. He later distributed compensation cheques to the bereaved families of Talacauvery temple priests.
The minister gave a cheque for Rs 2.5 lakh each to Narayana Achars daughters and Rs 5 lakh cheque to the deceased Anandatheertha Swamis sister Susheelamma. Five people in two houses were buried following a landslide at Talacauvery on August 7.
The regular pooja rituals have been started in Talacauvery temple after cleaning the premises and in consultation with tantris (priests), local people and public representatives.
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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.
