Hijab Row In Another Karnataka College, Boys Protest In Support Of Girls

New Delhi:

Protests by college students in Karnataka over their proper to put on the hijab to class unfold to extra schools right this moment.

This morning, round 40 girls college students sporting the hijab stood on the gates of the Bhandarkars Arts and Science Diploma School in Kundapur, a coastal city in Udupi district of Karnataka, because the workers refused to allow them to in except they took off their headscarves. They missed their lessons for the second day.

The scholars, all between 18 and 20 years, demanded to know why the administration had banned the hijab when the foundations permit it.

#WATCH | College students sporting hijab denied entry to Govt PU School in Kundapur space of Udupi, Karnataka amid a row on sporting the scarf in lecture rooms

“They weren’t sporting the hijab earlier & this downside began solely 20 days in the past,” State Schooling Minister BC Nagesh has mentioned. pic.twitter.com/3pT418rb0y

— ANI (@ANI) February 4, 2022

The school has an instruction handbook that claims: “Lady college students are permitted to put on the headscarf contained in the campus, nevertheless the color of the headscarf ought to match with the dupatta, and no scholar is allowed to put on every other material contained in the campus together with the faculty canteen”.

The principal, Narayan Shetty, mentioned he wished to protect concord on campus. “I’m a authorities worker. I should observe all of the directions of the federal government. I used to be instructed that some college students will enter the faculty sporting saffron shawls, and if concord is disturbed within the identify of faith, the principal shall be held accountable,” he mentioned.

Some 40 Muslim boys additionally sat exterior the faculty and protested in solidarity with the women.

Yesterday, another college in Kundapur noticed an identical scenes when a bunch of hijab-wearing women stood exterior the gates for six hours. The Junior PU Authorities School had allowed hijabs in school till two days in the past, the women complained.

The difficulty began when a big group of boys confirmed up in school sporting saffron shawls on Wednesday to counter the hijab. To keep away from communal stress, the faculty administration determined to ask the ladies to attend lessons with out the hijab.

The hijab protests started weeks in the past on the Authorities Women PU school in Udupi district when six college students alleged that they’d been barred from lessons for insisting on sporting the scarf.

A frontrunner of the state’s ruling BJP, Yashpal Suvarna, who’s the vp of the Udupi School Administrative Committee, controversially mentioned it might take him “5 minutes to cease the resistance with the assistance of Hindu organisations”.

“By means of Hindu organisations, we will cease this inside 5 minutes. There are round 900 college students within the school. These six college students are creating chaos with the assist of PFI and CFI (Campus Entrance of India) organisations. We are going to cease this resistance for positive, and we are going to take a choice on learn how to cease it by way of Hindu organisations,” Mr Suvarna warned.

CT Ravi, one other senior BJP chief, mentioned the scholars ought to observe guidelines or keep away.

At present, THEY will ask permission to attend faculty sporting Hijab.

Tomorrow, THEY will demand Sharia Legislation.

ONE SCHOOL, ONE UNIFORM.

In case you are not following the varsity guidelines, cease going to high school.

Colleges are usually not your private area which you could put on no matter you need.

— C T Ravi ???????? ಸಿ ಟಿ ರವಿ (@CTRavi_BJP) February 4, 2022

Karnataka House Minister Araga Jnanendra mentioned kids ought to “neither put on the hijab nor saffron shawls” at school. “Colleges are the place the place kids belonging to all religions ought to be taught collectively and imbibe a sense that we’re not completely different, and all are kids of Bharat Mata,” Mr Jnanendra instructed reporters yesterday.

“There are non secular organisations who suppose in any other case, I’ve requested the police to maintain a watch on them. Those that trigger hindrance or undermine this nation’s unity, they should be handled,” he mentioned.