Karnataka Students In Hijab Sent To Separate Classrooms, No Lessons
NDTV
Karnataka Hijab Row: There was also a confrontation between students wearing blue scarves and those wearing saffron scarves at a college in Chikkamagaluru, IDSG College.
As the hijab versus saffron scarves on campus clash spread in Karnataka, two colleges declared a holiday today to avoid communal trouble while another college allowed students wearing the hijab in separate classrooms.
There was also a confrontation between students wearing blue scarves and those wearing saffron scarves at a college in Chikkamagaluru, IDSG College. Students wearing saffron protested against the hijab and those wearing blue, Dalit students, backing the hijab-wearing students.
After days of protests by hijab-wearing students outside the gates, the Government Junior PU college in Kundapur in Udipi district allowed the young women on campus this morning but controversially seated them in separate classrooms without any lessons.
College officials said this was to "avoid crowding outside the gates".
