BJP won’t allow ‘Air Show’ to shift: Yeddyurappa
Gadag, August 13: BJP state president and Opposition Leader BS Yeddyurappa said that the party would not allow the Air Show to shift to Lucknow from Bengaluru.
Speaking to reporters here on Monday, Yeddyurappa said that the union ministers representing Karnataka and all MPs would prevail upon the central government against shifting the venue of the Air Show. Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, DCM Dr G Parameshwar, Minister DK Shivakumar and others have been creating confusion on Air Show. Already, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given clarification over the issue. So, it was not fair to discuss about the Air Show shifting, he said.
The farmers problems would not be solved just by transplanting the paddy saplings. Total 13 districts including Koppal, Raichur, Chitradurga and Ballary have been facing acute shortage of rain and facing drought threat. The coalition government should respond to the problems of the people instead of doing politics, he 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.
