Bengaluru, 25 Oct

Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, R Ashoka came down on the Congress after a 26-year-old bank employee died after she was allegedly run over by a speeding truck when she fell off a pillion of a motorcycle.

The accident occurred on Friday on the Huskur–Makali road, which is alleged to be in poor condition and filled with potholes, they said.

According to police on Saturday, the deceased Priyanka Kumari Poonia was travelling with her brother, Naresh Kumar, who was riding the motorcycle. He applied the brakes suddenly after a car in front slowed down, allegedly due to a pothole on the road.

At that moment, a truck coming from the opposite direction hit the motorcycle's handlebars, causing Kumar to lose control of the vehicle "because of the poor road conditions", as stated in the complaint.

The truck then ran over Priyanka while Kumar escaped with minor injuries.

“Every pothole in Bengaluru is a symbol of the Congress’ corruption, apathy, and arrogance,” Ashoka said on X. “A young woman in Bengaluru has lost her life - not because of fate, but because of a pothole!”