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Karnataka Hijab Controversy: High Court Resumes Hearing On Petitions Challenging Hijab Ban

The Karnataka High Court has urged students and residents of Udupi to maintain calm

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The Karnataka High Court resumed hearings on petitions challenging the state’s hijab ban in certain colleges on Wednesday. The court, which heard petitions on the issue on Tuesday, urged students and the general public to maintain peace and tranquillity.

Following tensions over the hijab row in various parts of the state, the state government announced Tuesday that high schools and colleges would be closed for the next three days.

Police in Karnataka’s Bengaluru have banned all gatherings and protests near educational institutions for two weeks due to an escalating row over the use of hijab in schools and colleges.

Stone pelting and police use of force were reported on Tuesday as the hijab row in Karnataka escalated and student protests spread to more colleges, prompting Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to declare a three-day holiday for all educational institutions in order to “maintain peace and harmony.”

Congress leader, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, weighed in on the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka on Wednesday, saying that it is a woman’s right to wear whatever she wants, whether it is a bikini, a ‘ghoonghat,’ or a ‘hijab.’

While on the other hand, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh said on Wednesday that no proposal to ban ‘hijab’ in educational institutions in the state is being considered.

Even as state school education minister Inder Singh Parmar, who had supported ‘hijab’ ban and proposed a dress code in schools, said his statement was “wrongly interpreted.”