K'taka Cong schools state BJP for recommending BSY's son for MLC ticket, calls it dynasty politics
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress on Saturday schooled BJP over the party’s move to nominate BY Vijayendra for MLC ticket and asked the saffron party if this was not “Dynasty politics”.
“Let BJP answer nominating BJP Vice President BY Vijayendra as MLC candidate. Is this not dynasty politics? Isn’t Vijayendra getting the ticket only because he is the son of BS Yediyurappa?
The Karnataka BJP core committee, which met on Saturday, is said to have recommended the candidature of party vice president B Y Vijayendra, former chief minister B S Yediyurappa’s son, for the upcoming Legislative Council elections.
Vijayendra’s name is among over a dozen other names that the core committee has discussed for seven Legislative Council seats for which elections will be held on June 3. Elections are necessary as seven MLCs are retiring on June 14.
ವಿಜಯೇಂದ್ರ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಿರಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಪರಿಷತ್ ಸದಸ್ಯ ಸ್ಥಾನ ನೀಡಲು ಮುಂದಾಗಿರುವ @BJP4Karnataka ಉತ್ತರಿಸಲಿ.
— Karnataka Congress (@INCKarnataka) May 14, 2022
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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.
