Two more Karnataka MLAs test positive for COVID-19
Vijayapura/Yadgir: Two more Karnataka legislator's tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.
BJP MLA from Devara Hippargi constituency Somanagouda Patil tested positive for the infection. His swab was sent for test on August 14 and the results returned positive on Sunday. MLA is being treated at a hospital in Bengaluru.
Another BJP MLA Venkatareddy Mudnal from Yadgir constituency has also tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. MLA had participated in the Independence Day Celebration held yesterday, it is said that likely more number of people would have come in his contact.
He requested whoever came in contact with him to undergo COVID test. In yesterday's public event, police and staff of district administration had come in contact with the legislator. All those who came in contact would be tested for the infection.
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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.
