Hosanagara: Water in school tanks found contaminated with insecticide; four children fall ill
Shivamogga: In an incident reported from Hosanagara taluk on Thursday, the water in the tanks at a government primary school was contaminated by miscreants using insecticide, with four children falling ill.
While the water in both tanks of the school was contaminated, the contamination level was found to be extremely in the water in one of the tanks.
The school children, who were washing hands with the water let out from the second tank, turned suspicious about the quality of water that had a stench and brought it to the notice of the teachers.
Four children who washed their hands in the water of the tank are learned to have fallen ill. They were treated at the Hosanagara hospital and their health condition is said to be stable.
Tahsildar Rashmi Halesh visited the school on being informed of the contamination of the water in the school tanks and held an inspection. Sannakki Manju, Personal Secretary of MLA Gopalakrishna Beluru; Narendra, Taluk Panchayat Executive Officer; and Shankar Gowda, Hosanagara Sub-inspector were present.
The villagers and parents of the children have condemned the act. They have also demanded that the miscreants be found and strict action be taken against them.
A police case has been registered and investigation is underway.
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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.
