Hijab Row In Another Karnataka College, Boys Protest In Support Of Girls
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Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said children should "neither wear the hijab nor saffron shawls" in school.
Protests by students in Karnataka over their right to wear the hijab to class is spreading to more colleges. #WATCH | Students wearing hijab denied entry to Govt PU College in Kundapur area of Udupi, Karnataka amid a row on wearing the headscarf in classrooms"They were not wearing the hijab earlier & this problem started only 20 days ago," State Education Minister BC Nagesh has said. pic.twitter.com/3pT418rb0y
This morning, around 40 students wearing the hijab stood at the gates of the Bhandarkars Arts and Science Degree College in Kundapur, a coastal town in Udupi district of Karnataka, as the staff refused to allow them in unless they took off their headscarves.
The students, all between 18 and 20 years, protested outside the college gates and demanded to know why the administration had banned the hijab when the rules allow it.
