Heavy rains batter Kodagu: Navy arrives from Karwar
Instructed to open gruel centers, rural areas in danger
Kodagu, August 17: The Kodagu district has completely affected by the incessant rains following which the rural areas are in a dangerous state.
Minister RV Deshpande has said that 70 navy personnel from Karwar were arriving soon to rescue the victims. Speaking at Madikeri, he said, “80 soldiers are arriving here from Mangaluru. Revenue and Health Department staff from Mysuru and Hassan have been deployed. Medical teams are coming from different parts of the state. It has been instructed to supply kerosene from Mysuru as the power supply has been disrupted across the district.
While the instructions have been provided to open gruel centers at required places, the SP has been asked to take all the JCBs in the district into custody. Due to bad weather, the use of helicopters for the rescue operations has become challenging. It is possible to reach to victims only when the weather conditions improve, the minister said.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
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.
