BJP targeting Congress leaders in recent Bengaluru violence: KPCC President
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar Tuesday alleged that the BJP government in the state was targeting Congress leaders over the recent violence in Bengaluru to "politicise" the issue.
On his first visit to the national capital after being appointed the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President, Shivakumar claimed BJP leaders were "harassing" local Congress leaders.
"Congress leaders have no role in the violence. However, the BJP is trying to politicise the issue by linking the names of Congress leaders to the incident," Shivakumar told reporters.
He also alleged that the saffron party government failed to provide security to Congress legislator Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, whose house was destroyed during the violence that broke out in parts of Bengaluru on August 11.
Shivakumar is in the national capital to meet his party's top brass, and submit additional documents sought by the Enforcement Directorate officials in a money-laundering probe against him.
Separately, Karnataka Tourism Minister C T Ravi -- who was in the national capital to meet Union ministers -- questioned the fact-finding committee set up by the Congress on the violence.
"What is the purpose of this committee? To justify the attack on Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy?" Ravi asked, responding to reporters' query about the committee.
"Some Congress leaders had instigated the public to attack the house of a Congress MLA in order to settle a political score. Truth will come out soon," he further said.
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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.
