Over 28,000 students skip Economics paper in PUC II examination in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Over 28,000 PUC students from across the state who were supposed to appear for the Economics paper on Monday, skipped the examination. A total of 28,112 students did not take the Economics paper in the state.
Of the 3,65,839 fresher students who were to appear for the paper, 20,147 skipped the paper while of the 21,749 repeater students who were to appear for the exam, 2019 students remained absent on Monday.
5956 students from the private category also chose to skip the exam, official data stated.
Among the district, 3054 students in Bengaluru, 1940 in Tumkuru, 1502 in Mysuru, and 1298 in Chitradurga skipped the economics paper on Monday.
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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.
