Tremors continue at Kogre, villagers panicked
Chikmagaluru, August 12: Residents of Kogre and surrounding villages in Koppa taluk of the district again experienced the tremors on Sunday and it has pressed the panic button in the region.
The residents heard a big sound on Sunday at around 3pm at Shanthigrama, Attakudige, Bettadakolalu, Byredevaru and others villages in Megunda hobli limits in the taluk. Because of the tremors, the utensils at the houses fell down and this situation has forced the people to go out of their houses. Within a week, these villages experienced such tremors third time, it is said.
Local people said that they have experienced the earthquake at Abbikallu near Kogre. They said that the earth was trembled for a few seconds. Now, they are not ready to go inside the houses and sleep because of this repeated shakes. In the last four months, they heard huge sounds like bomb explosion below the earth for more than 100 times in these villages. The villagers were fed up with the developments. Following repeated complaints, Koppa tahsildar and his team visited the Kogre village and inspected a cave near the village temple. But they have failed to come to a conclusion.
Though the villagers have submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner to inspect the situation and find safety measures, no action was taken so far, the villagers alleged.
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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.
