Despite the state government’s order directing students to adhere to uniforms, protests for and against the hijab continued on Monday across the state. Even as Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Delhi appealed to students and colleges to adhere to the government order on uniforms, the row over the attire spread to more parts of the state.
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Earlier videos from the coastal town of Kundapur showed students of the Government Junior College in headscarves, arguing with their principal, Ramakrishna GJ after they were denied entry into the campus.
At least 28 Muslim girls were denied entry into a government junior college for wearing the hijab in Udupi, the second educational institution to do so in recent days, evoking strong reactions from various quarters, especially on social media. Authorities at the Government Junior College in Kundapura shut the gates on Muslim girls regardless of their pleas against the
Karnataka Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah threw his weight behind Muslim girls on their right to wear the hijab to schools and colleges, in a first assertive statement from the Congress on the ongoing controversy. “Denying the girls entry inside a college, that too a government college is a violation of the students’ fundamental rights,” Siddaramaiah told a news