KPCC President DK Shivakumar alleges his phone is being tapped
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader and KPCC President DK Shivakumar on Friday alleged that his phone was being tapped and added that the matter will soon be brought to the notice of the concerned authorities.
Speaking to the reporters at his residents in Sadashivanagar, DK Shivakumar added that his phone was working right till yesterday but said that he was not receiving calls and there was some disruption, adding that his phone was being tapped.
“Yesterday and the day before, my phone was alright. But now, I’m not able to receive calls properly. I think my phone is being tapped,” Shivakumar told reporters.
“I am not alleging this without evidence. From morning I am not receiving any calls, at least 20 people called me but the voice is not audible on any of these calls. The voice isn’t clear, there's an unexpected rise and drop and an unnecessary sound is heard” he alleged.
“This is not the first time my telephone is being tapped. This has happened in the past as well. I don’t take it seriously. I will immediately file a complaint to the concerned authorities in this regard” Shivakumar further told reporters.
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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.
