Shifting ‘Aero India’ Air Show to Lucknow is not fair: CM
Hubballi, August 12: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Central Government’s decision to shift the venue of ‘Aero India’ air show being held in Bengaluru once in two years, to Lucknow eying the Lok Sabha elections was not fair.
Strongly condemning the decision of the central government at the Hubballi airport here on Sunday, the Chief Minister said that Uttar Pradesh has more Lok Sabha seats. So, the central government has shifted the Air Show to Lucknow to get political mileage. Bengaluru was a suitable place to conduct Air Show and the state has all basic infrastructure required for the air show. Because of this reason, the previous governments had selected Bengaluru for the show, he said.
It was not fair to select the Lucknow cornering Bengaluru. Recently, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was requested to conduct the air show in Bengaluru. Even then, the central government has not considered the appeal of the state government, he said.
Left to PWD
The issue of shifting the Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project (KSHIP) office to Hassan was left to PWD department. He would not interfere in this issue, he clarified.
“I have come to Hubballi for the first time after becoming the Chief Minister. Since election code of conduct for local body elections is in force, I cannot stay here. Otherwise, I would have toured the north Karnataka for three days. After the elections to the local bodies, I will tour the North Karnataka”, Kumaraswamy 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.
