The Karnataka authorities plan to take away the ban on sporting the hijab in institutes
Bengaluru:
The Karnataka authorities has not given any order to finish the ban on sporting the hijab in instructional establishments, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stated on Saturday, a day after media stories claimed the hijab ban has been eliminated.
The ban by the earlier BJP authorities on sporting the hijab had triggered protests.
At an occasion in Mysuru yesterday, Siddaramaiah had stated girls can put on the hijab if they need. The remark led to hypothesis that the Chief Minister had ordered to scrap the ban.
Nevertheless, Siddaramaiah advised reporters right now the Karnataka authorities has not formally issued any order to permit sporting the hijab in instructional establishments.
“We now have not executed it but (permitting hijab). One particular person requested me a query, and I replied to that. Sure, the federal government is contemplating to finish the ban. However the matter might be mentioned with authorities officers first,” Siddaramaiah advised reporters right now.
The plan to finish the hijab ban was already on the Congress’s agenda earlier than the election in Might this yr, when the get together defeated the BJP underneath former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Whereas Siddaramaiah has attacked the BJP over allegedly dividing folks primarily based on what they put on and caste, the BJP has known as the Congress’s coverage “appeasement politics”.
Within the hijab case, the Supreme Court docket had delivered a break up verdict on whether or not the federal government has the authority to make guidelines on what to put on. The court docket had stated it could contemplate organising a three-judge bench to take the matter ahead.
“When the matter is pending within the Supreme Court docket, the Chief Minister doesn’t even take that into consideration and decides to please the minorities, whereas eyeing the Lok Sabha election,” Mr Bommai stated.
The Hijab row started in December 2021 when six women in Udupi’s Authorities PU Faculty have been denied permission to put on the headband in lecture rooms. It has now develop into one other political problem forward of the 2024 normal election.