Three girls enter govt college in Udupi with hijab, students wear saffron shawls in response
India Today
Three girls staged a walk-out after the principal of a government college in Karnataka’s Udupi did not allow them to enter wearing Hijabs. Upon seeing the girls with hijabs, students began wearing saffron shawls as a sign of protest.
On Monday morning , February 7, three students wearing hijabs walked into Kalavara Varadaraj government College in Koteshwara town of Karnataka’s Udupi district.
Upon seeing this, other students began wearing saffron shawls as a sign of protest. The principal convinced them to not wear the saffron shawls and they entered. The principal asked the girls to remove their hijabs too.
Not willing to budge, the three girls with hijabs walked out of the college.
On Friday, Hindu groups allegedly forced boys to wear saffron shawls in pre-university college classrooms in Udupi.
The incident was reported by the Government Pre-University College in Udupi district’s Byndoor town.
According to reports, this incident took place after Muslim girls in the college removed their hijabs before entering the campus. The principal, however, intervened in the matter to stop Hindu outfits from enforcing a ‘saffron shawl campaign’.
On Monday, February 7, a large number of students in Mandya district of Karnataka turned up to college wearing saffron shawls.
