"No Student Was Around Her": Karnataka Minister On Woman Who Fought Back On Hijab
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Karnataka minister BC Nagesh said, "The students didn't want to gherao the girl who was coming outside the college in Mandya. No other student was around her when she shouted Allah-hu-Akbar"
A minister in Karnataka, BC Nagesh, claimed today that the burqa-clad college student who was caught on camera yesterday standing up to a mob in saffron, made the first move in her show of defiance.
"The students didn't want to gherao the girl who was coming outside the college in Mandya. No other student was around her when she shouted "Allah-hu-Akbar". Was she provoked? Can't encourage "Allah-hu-Akbar' or 'Jai Shri Ram' on campus," Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh was quoted as saying by news agency ANI today.
"No one can take law and order into their hands. The government will not spare any miscreant," the minister said, reported ANI.
Videos of the confrontation at the Mandya pre-University college, were widely shared yesterday amid the escalating row over the use of hijab in educational institutions.
