Communalism "Will Destroy India's IT Leadership", Warns Kiran Shaw
NDTV
The Karnataka High Court recently backed a state government order banning the hijab in classrooms, asserting that the hijab is "not an essential religious practice in Islam".
In the middle of a row in Karnataka over a call by right-wing groups to ban Muslim traders from temple festivals, Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to "resolve the growing religious divide" in the state, warning that if the tech sector becomes communal it will "destroy" India's global leadership. Karnataka has always forged inclusive economic development and we must not allow such communal exclusion- If ITBT became communal it would destroy our global leadership. @BSBommai please resolve this growing religious divide https://t.co/0PINcbUtwG
Kiran Shaw is the first big corporate leader to publicly voice concern over what she calls "communal exclusion", days after the Karnataka government cited an old rule barring non-Hindus from doing business on temple premises.
"Karnataka has always forged inclusive economic development and we must not allow such communal exclusion- If ITBT (IT and Biotech) became communal it would destroy our global leadership. BS Bommai, please resolve this growing religious divide," Ms Shaw tweeted, sharing a news report.
