Come out of Bengaluru and see pain of flood victims: Congress slams Karnataka Revenue Minister
Belagavi: Accusing Revenue Minister R. Ashok of not coming out of Bengaluru to heed the grievances of flood victims, KPCC Working President, Satish Jarkiholi has said that when North Karnataka region is reeling under floods, the Minister is not leaving Bengaluru.
"People are suffering because of the natural calamity but Revenue Minister has no time to heed their grievances as he is not ready to leave Bengaluru", he said.
Addressing media persons at the party office on Friday, he demanded the Minister to travel to Belagavi and Vijayapura districts where floods have made the lives of people miserable.
Criticizing Ministers of Belagavi district, Satish said that despite the district having four Ministers, they are not working in tandem.
"They are not working in coordination to help affected people. Like Ashok, other Ministers are also choosing to work from Bengaluru", he said.
He added that Congress has demanded the government to hold a special session. If it is held, then issues pertaining to flood relief and scams in the purchase of equipment during the COVID pandemic will be raised.
Referring to recent Bengaluru violence, he said that Congress has constituted a Fact-Finding Committee to unearth the truth. However, the committee is yet to begin its work. The report of the committee will reveal the truth. He opined that if the government gets the inquiry conducted through a retired High Court Judge, it will bring out the facts.
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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.
