Karnataka hijab row: Mob chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ accosts girl, she responds with 'Allah-hu-Akbar'
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Karnataka hijab row: A video has emerged that shows a mob chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' accosting a girl outside a college. The girl, in turn, responds with 'Allah-hu-Akbar'.
Amid the massive controversy surrounding the Karnataka hijab row, a video of a girl being stopped by a saffron scarf-clad mob has emerged.
In the video, a girl at a college can be seen being accosted by a mob chanting Jai Shri Ram. The men in the mob advanced and raised slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in front of the girl. The girl, in turn, chanted loudly ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’, before turning back in the face of the opposition of the mob.
Tweeting the video, actor Swara Bhaskar called the mob: “Wolves”
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Speaking to India Today, the girl said: “I was going to the college when some people accosted me and said that I can enter the premises only after removing the burqa. They were not letting me in.”
Earlier, a video had surfaced that showed a boy at a college in Shimoga climbing up a pole and hoisting a saffron flag.
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