Tribunal awards 5.5 tmc drinking water to Karnataka
Mahadayi water dispute
Bengaluru, August 14: The Mahadayi River Water Disputes Tribunal on Tuesday announced its verdict on sharing of Mahadayi river water. As per the verdict, the Tribunal has awarded 5.5 tmc of drinking water to Karnataka. But Karnataka had asked for 7 tmc of water. During rainy season, Mahadayi river water flows to Malaprabha valley.
Karnataka had asked total 36 tmc of water. But now, the Tribunal awarded total 13.5 tmc of water including 5.5 tmc for drinking purpose and 8 tmc for power generation.
Following the Tribunal verdict on Tuesday at 4 pm, security arrangement was tightened in the places where Mahadayi protest was being held.
The police department has instructed the North-West Road Transport Corporation to suspend the bus service between Nargunda and Navalgunda as precautionary measures following the Tribunal verdict. As a result, the bus service was suspended from Tuesday at 3pm.
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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.
