Bengaluru Ulemas meet MLA Srinivas Murthy whose house was destroyed in Bengaluru riots
Offer to construct new house for MLA
Bengaluru: A delegation of the Muslim religious scholars, led by Amir e Shariat Maulana Sageer Ahmad Khan along with MLA Zamir Ahmad Khan on Friday, met MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy at his residence and expressed sympathy and moral support to him. Recently his house was torched by miscreants during the protest against an alleged defamatory post by a relative of MLA.
After inspecting the loss incurred by the MLA, Moulana Sageer Ahmad Khan consoled the legislator and requested him not to lose courage. He said, "Almighty is always with those who are patient". Moulana reiterated to stand by him in the time of distress.
Moulana in his address to MLA said he condemns derogatory remarks on Prophet and also mob taking laws in their hands, damaging the public property and disrupting the peace. Islam is completely against such acts, he said.
Maulana Sagir Ahmad Khan said, "We all Ulemas will build a house for him". MLA in his response said that he would himself build his house and requested for the blessings of Ulemas.
Later, while addressing the reporters Zamir Ahmad Khan said that the religious leaders have offered to build a house for the legislator, If he agrees, the Ulemas will construct a house with their own money. Khan said the Police have arrested the main accused in the incident. He appealed not to take law in their own hands instead urged to fight for justice through legal struggle.
During this visit Maulana Syed Mustafa Rifai, Maulana Syed Shabbir Ahmad Nadvi, Maulana Aasim, Mufti Shamsuddin, Maulana Zulfiqar Raza Noori and many others 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.
