Mangaluru (Karnataka). The ‘hijab-saffron shawl’ controversy continued on Monday at several junior colleges in Kundapur in Udupi district with two college students defying a government order mandating uniforms prescribed by the state government or the management concerned. Tried. The state education department had issued this order on Saturday. A group of students of Venkataraman College in Kundapur took out a procession wearing saffron shawls and reached the campus on Monday.
The principal of the college and the police personnel present there stopped him from entering the campus. The students said that if girl students are allowed to come to classes wearing hijabs, they will also wear shawls. The principal assured them that no girl wearing a hijab would be allowed to enter the college, after which the students agreed to remove the shawl and go to the college.
In Government PU College of Kundapur also, the principal spoke to the Muslim girls wearing hijab and explained to them the order of the government, but the girl students said that they would continue to wear hijab. He was then asked to move to a separate room earmarked for him. This controversial issue is not taking its name to stop across the state.
A section of Muslim girls is adamant on wearing hijab in college even as the state government has directed to make the uniform mandatory for students in educational institutions. There have been several incidents in the state where Muslim girl students are not being allowed to attend classes in colleges wearing hijab, while Hindu students are coming to educational institutions with saffron shawls in response to the hijab.