Cricketer Rishabh Pant provides financial aid to girl from Bagalkot to get BCA seat
Bagalkot: In a philanthropic move, Indian cricket star Rishabh Pant is reported to have provided financial support a girl from Bagalkot who needed Rs 40,000 to gain entry into a BCA course.
The student, Jyothi Kanabur from Rabakavi village Bilagi taluk, is the daughter of Theerthayya, who owns a tea stall in the village. She had completed PUC with 83 per cent marks and wished to continue her education, but the financial status of her family proved a hurdle.
The family members, in an attempt to send Jyothi to college, are learned to have requested a Rabakavi-based contractor Anil Hunshikatti to help Jyothi get a BCA seat at the BLDE College in Jamakhandi. Assuring them help to get a seat and also financial aid, Hunshikatti reportedly brought the matter to the notice of his friend Akshay Nayak, who works as digital manager of Rishabh Pant. Nayak, in turn, informed Pant about the problems faced by the family with regard to the education of the girl.
Pant is said to have offered to help Jyothi’s family and immediately transferred the required amount to the college account to help the girl get a seat.
The villagers, on learning of the cricketer’s help to the family, appreciated his efforts at ensuring the girl continues her education.
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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.
