Hijab Propaganda Updates: Pre-university, degree colleges in Karnataka to reopen today
The hijab row which started last month in Udupi Pre-University College by six girl students has snowballed into a major controversy in the country.
Pre-university and degree colleges in Karnataka, that were shut due to controversy over hijab, will reopen from today. The state government decided to resume classes after at the behest of the High Court’s last week interim order wherein it restrained students from wearing saffron shawls, scarves, hijab and any religious flag within the classroom. “Wherever (in colleges) there are uniform related rules, it has to be strictly followed. Where a uniform is not there, the dress code will be decided. We will strictly follow the High Court order,” Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh said. As protests for and against the hijab intensified in different parts of Karnataka and turned violent in some places, the government had declared a holiday for all high schools and colleges in the state for three days, from February 9, and it was subsequently extended up to February 16. Meanwhile, Section 144 has been imposed in Bagalkot, Bangalore, Chikkaballapura, Gadag, Shimoga, Tumkur, Mysore, Udupi, and Dakshina Kannada.
About Hijab controversy
The hijab row started in Karnataka in December-end when a few students of a government pre-university college in Udupi, attending classes in headscarves, were asked to leave the campus. The matter then spread to different parts of the state, with youngsters, backed by right-wing outfits, responding by wearing saffron scarves. With the protests taking a violent turn at some places last week, the state government declared a three-day holiday for the institutions. The government decided to reopen schools and colleges after the High Court passed an interim order, restraining students from wearing saffron shawls, scarves, hijab and any religious flag within the classroom.
A girl in hijab will be country’s PM one day: Owaisi
A girl wearing Hijab will become the prime minister of the country one day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said amid the controversy over Muslim women’s headscarves. “If a girl decides to wear Hijab and asks her parents to do so and when her parents allow her to wear it, who can stop her from wearing it? We shall see, Inshallah,” Owaisi is heard saying in a 43-second video of his address in an election rally. “The girls will wear hijab, will wear Niqab and go to colleges and become doctors, collectors, SDMs and businessmen,” Owaisi said in the video, shared on his Twitter handle. “You all keep in mind, perhaps when I am not alive, a girl wearing a hijab will become the prime minister of this country one day,” he added.
Congress rejects its Karnataka MLA remarks on ‘hijab’
The Congress has rejected remarks made by its MLA in Karnataka that Hijab is an old practice among Muslims to not show the beauty of young girls to others. Party general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said there is no place in modern India for such “regressive views”. The BJP hit out at the Congress alleging that the party MLA in Karnataka has trivialised rape by claiming that those not wearing burqa invite rape. Congress MLA from Chamrajpet Zameer Ahmed said that Hijab among Muslims means in ‘purdah’ and is it an age-old practice. “When girls grow up, they are kept in ‘purdah’ to hide their beauty. Rape rate is the highest in India and it is because women are not in ‘purdah’,” he said in Karnataka.
Govt set to crack down on outfits disturbing peace
Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra on Tuesday said authorities have been directed to identify and initiate legal action against religious organisations attempting to break the society and corrupt innocent students. “Some religious organisations are using students to try to divide the society. Instructions have been given to identify them and initiate appropriate legal action against them,” the minister said in a statement. He claimed that not all but a few students were insisting that they be allowed to go to the school wearing Hijab.
Burqa-clad girl asked to remove Hijab, boycotts exam in Karnataka
The Hijab row continued to simmer in Karnataka on Tuesday over alleged denial of entry for girl students into schools with their headscarves on in some places, as one such girl announced boycotting her exam in response to the diktat. Scenes of angry parents of such children arguing with police and school authorities and an instance of a student trying to flaunt a saffron scarf as an apparent retaliation were also reported.
MP college asks students not to wear community-specific outfits
Madhya Pradesh | A PG Govt College in Datia asks its students to “not wear community-specific outfits, hijab in college,” following a demonstration by some protesters after a video showing two students wearing hijab in the college emerged
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— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2022
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