Wearing the hijab creates a burning topic in India due to alleged RSS-BJP involvement; Congress leaders comment on it.
At the present time, education department officials state most students are working with the court’s order. At the 10-day legislature session, which began on Monday, Congress members attended the session wearing black armbands to protest the hijab row and collapse of Constitutional values. Kaneez Fathima attended the session in hijab. BJP MLC DS Arun turned donned in saffron shawls.
Congress leader Ajoy Kumar, in Agartala, said, “Every rule is only for girls. The khaki half pant (RSS uniform) that Gadkari Ji wears should also be banned because that is also obscene. But we don’t ask Gadkari Ji not to wear it.
Speaking on #HijabRow, Congress leader Ajoy Kumar, in Agartala, said, “Every rule is only for girls. The khaki half pant (RSS uniform) that Gadkari Ji wears should also be banned because that is also obscene. But we don’t ask Gadkari Ji not to wear it.” (13.02)
#WATCH | Speaking on #HijabRow, Congress leader Ajoy Kumar, in Agartala, said, "Every rule is only for girls. The khaki half pant (RSS uniform) that Gadkari Ji wears should also be banned because that is also obscene. But we don't ask Gadkari Ji not to wear it." (13.02) pic.twitter.com/0PVPuY9BvE
— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2022
Congress leader Shiv Shankar says, “Hijab issue is created by BJP only. Saffron shawl was supplied by BJP-RSS workers …. They created this problem & they’re appealing to people to maintain peace’: @siddaramaiah, ex Karnataka CM.
Karnataka CM @BSBommai responds.
@RShivshankar
'Hijab issue is created by BJP only. Saffron shawl was supplied by BJP-RSS workers …. They created this problem & they're appealing to people to maintain peace': @siddaramaiah, ex Karnataka CM.
Karnataka CM @BSBommai responds.@RShivshankar#HijabConspiracy #HijabRow pic.twitter.com/NdYdtUXON0
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) February 14, 2022
Maharashtra: Urdu Ghar in Malegaon will be named after Muskan Khan, the student who became the face of Muslim girls’ protest against dress code rule in Karnataka, says Mayor Tahira Shaikh
“Even if there was a Hindu in her place, we would’ve done the same,” Shaikh says.
Maharashtra: Urdu Ghar in Malegaon will be named after Muskan Khan, the student who became the face of Muslim girls' protest against dress code rule in Karnataka, says Mayor Tahira Shaikh
"Even if there was a Hindu in her place, we would've done the same," Shaikh says#HijabRow pic.twitter.com/DsPgzYJvnQ
— ANI (@ANI) February 12, 2022
Sunanda Vashisht@sunandavashisht·13hIn this #HijabRow my respect for Islamists has gone up. Seriously it has. They haven’t resorted to any fake notions of ‘choice’ and ‘freedom’. They have clearly said that hijab/niqab/burkha is an Islamic diktat and is mandated by their faith. I appreciate this view. It is honest.
In this #HijabRow my respect for Islamists has gone up. Seriously it has. They haven’t resorted to any fake notions of ‘choice’ and ‘freedom’. They have clearly said that hijab/niqab/burkha is a Islamic diktat and is mandated by their faith. I appreciate this view. It is honest.
— Sunanda Vashisht (@sunandavashisht) February 14, 2022
Mohammed Zubair from Alt News tweeted, “IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE UNIFORM: Muslim teachers and staff being publicly humiliated to remove their #hijab before entering school campus.”
#KarnatakaHijabRow
Always about Muslims and finding reasons to harass them. #HijabRow #India https://t.co/gwYUSELnjT
— Samiya Latief (@SamiyaLatief) February 14, 2022
In the meantime, Karnataka institutes open, but hijab-wearing students of at least two Karnataka institutions, including 13 Shivamogga girls who were to write a Class X pre-board test, on Monday chose to skip school rather than take off their headscarves before entering classrooms as high school sections reopened statewide after a break forced by the dress-code row.
Allow us to wear hijab matching color of uniform say the Udupi students in Karnataka High Court.
“As far as Muslim girls are concerned, they are permitted to wear scarves matching with the bottom wear with a red hem on corners by the Kendriya Vidyalayas,” senior advocate Devadatt Kamath told the High Court.
Government High School in Shivamogga had allotted a separate room for Muslim girls to remove their headscarves but 13 Class X students insisted that they be allowed to wear hijab while writing the exam, officials said.
Deputy director of public instruction, MN Ramesh, visited the institution to convince the girls to adhere to the dress code, but they walked out. “The high court is yet to issue an order but the school authorities are asking us to remove our hijab,” said a student, Alia Mehat. She added: “If they continue to force us…we will drop out of school.”
The school, having 160 students across classes VIII to X, reported sparse attendance overall. Thirty students of Karnataka Public School at Nellihudikeri in Kodagu district, too, returned home without attending classes when they were not let in with their heads covered. The student’s parents said they would wait for the HC’s “final order” before taking a call on what to do.
In Mysuru, three students of a school on the outskirts were stopped from entering the classroom after they refused to remove their hijab. Video footage of students being asked to remove their hijab at the gate to a private school in Mandya went viral on social media, but no untoward incident was reported. In Udupi’s Government PU College for Girls, the heart of the protests against the hijab ban, classes resumed in the high school without any disruption.
A police contingent kept watch throughout the day. Most schools in the state reported a good turnout of students in classes IX and X. Enforcement of the HC’s interim order not to allow “religious clothing” inside classrooms was confined to schools and colleges where students are required to wear the stipulated uniform.
What started as a change of law after the girls returned to school after a two-year closedown of institutes due to COVID became an emotional issue triggered by the recent inflammatory speeches against Muslims in Haridwar and other places. With genocidal threats and attacks on Muslims, the hijab has become a passionate part of clothing that would make even non-hijab-wearing girls and women start to wear the hijab. And who started this fire one must ask?
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