Hijab Row Highlights: Some fanatics making it an issue, says Joshi on the hijab issue

Amid the simmering 'hijab' row in Karanataka, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said everyone should follow the dress code in schools and alleged that some politicians and fanatics made it an issue.

. Naveen Mohamedali, who directed the critically acclaimed Tamil film 'Moodar Koodam', on Tuesday expressed pain and concern at the intensifyinghijabdebate in Karnataka.

On Sunday, the director had made it clear in a couple of tweets that be it wearing the mangalsutra or thehijab, both were a decision for women to make.

"...My mother, who was born a Muslim, never wore a pardha. My wife who was born a Hindu refused to wear a mangalsutra.

"However, those were both their decisions. They were not compelled by anybody to make those decisions. Women must decide what they wish to wear. Be it father, husband or society, nobody has a right to order in this matter," he had said.

. After the controversy over wearing a headscarf orhijabin schools escalated in Karnataka, a statement in this regard by a Minister has sparked controversy in Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar on Tuesday said thathijabwill not be allowed in schools in the state. "Students will be allowed only to wear dress code andhijabis not a part of dress code," Parmar said on Tuesday in Bhopal.

Parmar, while talking to media persons also said that he has directed the school education department to ensure that only dress code is allowed in schools in Madhya Pradesh.

. Amid theKarnatakaHigh Court hearing the hijab matter, more incidents of violence were reported from an educational institute in the state on Tuesday.

The police fired teargas shells and carried out a baton charge to quell the violent mob in the Harihar First Grade College campus in Davanagere district.

Following the violence, the district administration has clamped prohibitory orders in Davanagere and Harihar twin cities.

According to eyewitnesses, several policemen and students were injured in the violent incident. Many two-wheelers have been damaged and a tense situation prevails in the Davanagere town. Police have been deployed at all sensitive places.

Local Congress MLA Ramappa has rushed to the spot to pacify the students. However, outraged students had a heated debate with the MLA.

. Hatred for Muslims has been "normalised" in the country which "no longer celebrates its diversity", alleged National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Tuesday as protests for and against 'hijab' intensified at colleges in parts ofKarnataka.

He was commenting on a video that has surfaced on social media showing some men sporting saffron scarves heckling a woman in 'hijab' and raising slogans at a college inKarnataka.

"How brave these men are and how macho they must feel while targeting a lone young lady! Hatred for Muslims has been completely mainstreamed and normalised in India today.

"We are no longer a nation that celebrates our diversity, we want to punish and exclude people for it," Abdullah said in a tweet tagging the video with it.

. As protests for and against the 'hijab' intensified at colleges in different parts of Karnataka, state's Home Minister Araga Jnanendra on Tuesday while appealing for peace said no one should give an opportunity to use the police force.

The Home Minister's warning came as tension prevailed at some educational institutions in Udupi, Shivamogga, Bagalkote and other parts, forcing the police and authorities to intervene.

The Karnataka High Court is today hearing the petitions filed by five girls studying in a Government Pre-university College in Udupi, questioninghijabrestriction in college.

. With the Hijab row snowballing into a major controversy, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday said the international community is observing us and it is not a good development.

. Tension gripped Shikaripur town on Tuesday, when a group of youths belonging to the minority community hurled stones at a private bus during the agitation demanding the government to permit Muslim girls to wear hijabs in classrooms.

They were staging outside government pre-university college in the town. In order to control the mob, police resorted to light-caning. Enraged by this, some agitators hurled stones at a private bus and damaged the windshield. - DHNS

. Fresh protests erupted at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Udupi on Tuesday after a large group of students wearing saffron stoles and headgears raised slogans in thecollege campus against the hijab as female Muslim students arrived at the college wearing headscarves.

. Amidst a raging controversy over dress code in schools and colleges, the BBMP began distributing uniforms at schools across Bengaluru.

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials maintained that the move has no connection to the snowballing controversy, though they admitted that distribution of uniforms has been pending since August when schools reopened for offline classes. Students, it said, had no clue about the uniform.

. The “row” in Karnataka over wearing the hijab or headscarf by some Muslim girl students, which began in a college in Udupi district, is a whipped-up controversy. Most colleges do not usually have a dress code, except rules against skimpy wear, and many Muslim girls have been going to college with their heads covered. To suddenly stop them from entering institutions that they should consider their own, having enrolled and begun their college life there, is unwarranted and detrimental not only to the students in question but also the State and its goal to educate more girl children, treat them with respect and enable them to find their place in a complex and changing world.

. Karnataka High Court says - we will go by reason, by law, not by passion or emotions. We will go by what Constitution says. Constitution is the Bhagavad Gita for me.

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Hijab Row Highlights: Some fanatics making it an issue, says Joshi on the hijab issue

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