Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai comments on hijab controversy in Karnataka
The Hindu
The girls’ education activist said that ‘refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying’
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai took to twitter on February 9 to comment on the hijab-saffron shawl controversy in Karnataka. The girls’ education activist said that ‘refusing to let girls go to school in their hijabs is horrifying’.
Karnataka has been witnessing a raging controversy where Muslim girls are not allowed into classrooms wearing hijab in some colleges, citing dress code, and a section of Hindu boys insist on wearing saffron shawls if hijabs are allowed in classrooms.
What started in Udupi district has now spread to colleges to other districts of Karnataka, creating law and order problems on some campuses.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.