Rahul Gandhi invites PM Modi for open debate on Rafale deal
AICC president participates in ‘Bidar Janadhwani conference’
Bidar, August 13: Congress president Rahul Gandhi continued his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Rafale deal, saying "The one who committed theft could not speak looking into my eyes."
"Make me debate with Modi on Rafale for as long as you can, for as many hours you want.. and he would not be able to speak for one second," he said, reiterating the party's graft charges against the government.
Unemployment has been created by snatching away the defense aircraft deal from Bengaluru’s HAL. Neither free domestic gas services were provided nor the gas fares reduced. Unemployment is at the peak. PM speaks about ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao.’ But he does not speak about the sexual harassment that took place on girls in Uttar Pradesh. PM waives off businessmen’s loans. He makes people stand in the queue by banning notes,” he said.
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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.
