Karnataka Assembly, Council sessions to begin from Sept 21: Karnataka Minister
Bengaluru: The next Karnataka legislature session will be held from September 21 to September 30, Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J C Madhuswamy said on Thursday.
Stating that there was a compulsion to hold the session by September 23, Madhuswamy said the session will take place in Bengaluru.
"We have fixed the date. The Chief Minister has authorised me to sit with council chairman and assembly speaker to decide the venue and other modalities," Madhuswamy told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
The minister said he would hold a meeting with the council chairman and speaker to fix the guidelines for the next session. As per the rules, the session should take place within six months from the previous session.
However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the session could not take place since March 24 when it was adjourned sine die.
Assembly speaker Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri had even convened a meeting with officials a fortnight ago to decide on conducting the session. He had even assigned a few officials to identify a suitable place including the Vidhana Soudha where the meeting can be organised.
He was also not averse to holding it elsewhere in view of the mandate to ensure the safety of the members in view of the coronavirus scare.
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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.
