Kalaburagi: Three alcoholics die after treatment with native medicine for addiction; one critical
Kalaburagi: In an incident reported from Sedam taluk, medication from a quack on Wednesday for their addiction to alcohol resulted in the death of three men while a fourth patient is reported to be seriously ill.
The victims and identified as Lakshminarasimhalu (45) of Burugapalli, Ganesh Babu Rathod (24) of Shahabad, and Nagesh Bheemashappa Gadagu (25) of Madkal village. Lakshminarasimhalu’s son Ningappa Narasimhalu is under treatment at the Kalaburagi District Hospital as his health condition is critical, police have said.
The four men were treated by one Fakirappa, also known as Muthya, who is residing in Imadapura village and has been treating alcoholics using native medicine. He is said to have the treated the victims on Wednesday, but the patients fell ill after taking the medicine and were rushed to hospital.
Sedam Police have registered a case with regard to the incident, while the quack is said to be absconding.
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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.
