Even as the Karnataka High Court is set to hear a writ petition related to hijab on Tuesday, the government is now probing six girls from Government PU College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom. Huh.
BJP MLA Raghupati Bhat has also confirmed this. News18State Home Minister Araga Gyanendra said the girls and their parents had asked the police department to investigate any links with other organisations.
The MLA said any meeting of the girls and their call records would be scrutinized. According to Bhat, it was important to find out whether the girls were being investigated by any international or terrorist organization.
‘Only demanding our rights’
All eyes are now on the Karnataka High Court, which will hear the petition on the ‘hijab’ controversy, as the contentious issue seems to be coming to a halt across the state. A section of Muslim girls is demanding permission to go to college, while the state government has broken the whip of making uniform mandatory for students attending classes in educational institutions. There have been instances during the past few days, particularly in coastal Karnataka, where some Muslim girl students were not allowed to attend classes wearing hijabs, and Hindu boys who responded with saffron shawls were also expelled from classes. was stopped.
The hijab controversy has also taken on a political colour, as the ruling BJP stands firmly in support of the uniform rules being enforced by educational institutions, calling the headscarf a religious symbol, while the opposition Congress is in support of the opposition to Muslims. has come to the fore. Girls. The issue began in January at a government PU college in Udupi, where six students attended classes wearing headscarves in violation of the prescribed dress code, which has spread to some other colleges in the city and nearby Kundapur and Bindoor.
There have also been reports of students coming to educational institutions with hijab or saffron shawls at Ramadurga PU College in Belagavi and a college in Hassan, Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga and a group of girls demonstrating in Mysore and Kalaburagi. In favor of hijab.
Meanwhile, students at Kundapura Government College wearing hijab will be accommodated in a separate room today after the institute criticized the institute for making students wait on the road after pasting the government circular at the college gate. However, students will still not be allowed to attend classes.
A Muslim student in Kundapur, who did not attend class because of wearing hijab, had said, “We are not here to protest or agitate, we are only asking for our right… Hijab is our right. We are just They are saying that let us attend class with it like we used to attend earlier. If suddenly we are asked to remove our hijab, how can we do it?”
Students who can’t follow dress code should look for other options: State Education Minister
Meanwhile, state education minister BC Nagesh on Sunday said that students who are not willing to follow the uniform dress code are free to explore other options. “Just as rules are to be followed in the army, so too has to be done here (in educational institutions). Options are open to those who are not ready to follow it, which they can use.” The minister appealed to the students not to become a ‘tool’ in the hands of political parties.
The Bommai government on Saturday issued a circular banning clothing that disturbs peace, harmony and law and order in educational institutions across the state. On the circular, Nagesh said that the government felt the need for clarification on the matter and issued a circular. He also clarified that students can come to school wearing the hijab, but they will have to carry it in their bags inside the campus.
Wondering why the problem suddenly came to the fore when students of all religions were coming to the schools wearing uniform, he said that everyone was learning and playing together with the spirit of equality but religious differences never came to the fore. According to Nagesh, the trouble started in December when some children in Udupi were bullied for wearing the hijab saying that ‘Shariah’ (Islamic law) prescribes such a dress code and they were duty bound to follow it. . The minister further claimed that many children were asked to do so, but most of them did not agree.
“In the Udupi school where the incident took place, out of 92 Muslim children, only six girls came wearing hijab and succumbed to the ‘poisonous seeds’. Other children came to school wearing school uniforms.”
Rejecting the Congress party’s charge that the BJP government did not want Muslim students to continue their studies, Nagesh said the Karnataka Education Act was not brought in by the BJP, but the Congress ruled the state for maximum years.
Police will investigate communal forces: Home Minister
On the issue, Home Minister Araga Gyanendra has said that a school uniform is something that should be followed, adding that it “helps children forget differences and unite as Indians.”
According to Gyanendra, the places of worship were meant to “follow our religions”, and he had “informed the police force to investigate the communal forces behind the incident.”
With inputs from PTI
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