Karnataka College Students In Saffron Scarves in the middle of the protest becomes a viral news. Amidst heated protests in Karnataka by some Muslim girls to be allowed to attend classes wearing a hijab, a group of students again marched to the Karnataka college wearing saffron scarves. Videos from Kundapur in the Udupi district show boys and girls donning the scarves over their college uniforms and raising slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” while going to the college.
The Karnataka College protests have made national headlines and also triggered political debates, with Congress and the BJP attacking each other over the issue.
Karnataka College Students Into Serious Protest
Police personnel were breaking up groups of saffron-clad protestors who had gathered near what appears to be a market area and raised slogans, the videos show.
Earlier videos showed students of the Government Junior College in headscarves, arguing with their principal Ramakrishna GJ after they were denied entry into the campus. According to officials, College rules allow students to wear the hijab in class but not during lessons.
In the video clips, Muslim students can be seen in a separate queue wearing headscarves over their uniforms. A police vehicle is also seen stationed near the Karnataka college.
But Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said children should “neither wear the hijab nor saffron scarves” in school.
Home Minister Araga Jnanendra statement
“Schools are the place where children belonging to all religions should learn together and imbibe a feeling that we are not different, and all are children of Bharat Mata,” Mr Jnanendra told the media.
“There are religious organisations who think otherwise, I have asked the police to keep a watch on them. Those who cause hindrance or undermine this country’s unity, they have to be dealt with,” he added.
On the occasion of Saraswati Puja, Mr Gandhi, alluding to the decision by the college authorities not to allow wearing the hijab in the classroom, tweeted “we are robbing the future of the daughters of India”.
“By letting students’ hijab come in the way of their education, we are robbing the future of the daughters of India. Ma Saraswati gives knowledge to all. She doesn’t differentiate,” the Congress leader said.
In BJP-ruled Karnataka, this is the second such confrontation after protests started a month ago at the PU Girls College in Udupi. Students there are still fighting to be allowed to sit in class wearing a hijab.
The Karnataka BJP, reacting to Mr Gandhi’s tweet, slammed the Congress leader for “communalising education”.
“By communalising education, CONgress co-owner Rahul Gandhi has once again proved that he is dangerous to the future of India. If hijab is very much essential to get educated, why doesn’t Rahul Gandhi make it mandatory in states ruled by CONgress?” the Karnataka BJP tweeted.
