I was in Congress first: HD Deve Gowda
Bengaluru, August 12: Former prime minister and JDS supremo HD Deve gowda said that he was in Congress earlier and when it was divided, he had gone to rebel Congress.
Speaking to reporters at Ravindra Kala Kshetra here on Sunday, Gowda said that first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had laid a strong foundation for democracy in the country. But today, he was being criticized and targeted in the Parliament. The country and the leaders have reached to that level which is shame, he opined.
When the Congress which was instrumental in gaining the freedom to the country has started losing its importance in the political arena, regional parties came into existence. Why did the Congress reach to such a low level? It's unfortunate that the Congress does not have a strong leader in south India, he said.
"I don't have single black mark on me. No one dared to make allegation against me", he claimed.
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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.
