the Karnataka Minister for IT & BT and Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (RDPR) on Saturday chimed into the raging Hijab controversy, supporting Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's decision to revoke the restrictions placed by the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime in 202
The son of Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, the cabinet minister is also the Chairman for Communications of the KPCC. He was reacting to allegations by the opposition BJP that the ruling party was doing “appeasement politics” and playing “divide and rule”.
Kharge asserted that the decision was as per the law and hit out at the saffron party by saying they should first “set their own house in order”.
“Whatever the Karnataka government is doing is as per the law and framework of the Constitution. BJP has no work to do, they should set their house in order first,” he said, while speaking to reporters.
The Karnataka unit of the BJP is heavily opposing the lift on the Hijab ban, B Y Vijayendra sating that the Congress-led government in the state is “dividing young minds along religious lines”.