Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar has taken a U-turn on his stand a day after his statement that hijab (headscarf) is not a part of school dress code and should be banned. Parmar on Wednesday clarified that there will be no dress code for schools in the state.
This statement of the minister has come after the hijab controversy. As reports emerged that MPs were planning to ban the hijab in schools, the minister suddenly said in the afternoon on Tuesday that a dress code would be created for school students that would be the same for all and no community or community. was not associated with religion. ,
By then the matter had turned into a major controversy and voices of discontent were echoing on social media platforms. Congress MLA Arif Masood had also announced to oppose the move when and when it was implemented. On Wednesday, when the minister retracted from his statement, the situation took a complete U-turn.
In a video clarification, the School Education Minister said that the Uniform Code he was talking about was about equality and identity of schools, but it was presented in a twisted manner and I reject these reports. “We will not introduce any new dress code and the traditional system will continue in schools.”
During his daily media briefing on the hijab controversy, Home Minister Dr Narottam Mishra clarified that no such proposal is pending before the state government. There is absolutely no confusion on this, the minister said.
To add, this is not the first time, the school education minister has differed with his cabinet colleagues.
Recently, the minister was taking a different stand on the issue of continuing the schools in offline mode amid the coronavirus threat as his own government, eager to reopen the schools despite the moderate level of threat of Covid 19 Was. The minister was publicly referring to the covid19 threat, at a time when his government was hinting at reopening schools.
Meanwhile, the Congress party chose to fish in the troubled waters. Party’s chief spokesperson KK Mishra on Wednesday reacted to the statement of the Home Minister and demanded the dismissal of the School Education Minister for making a false statement on the dress code issue.
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