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Bommai noted that the Constitution has mentioned in several ways what kind of dress to be worn in schools and colleges and even the state’s Education Act has made it clear in the Rules.
Asked why the ‘hijab’ row has refused to die down in the state, the CM said this issue is not limited to Karnataka as it has been discussed in a big way in states such as Kerala and Maharashtra where the matter was decided by high courts. The Karnataka government on February 5 had issued an order making uniforms prescribed by it or managements of private institutions mandatory for its students at schools and pre-university colleges across the state.
The issue has refused to die down across the state as a section of Muslim girls are adamant about wearing headscarves to college, while the state government has cracked the whip making uniforms mandatory for students attending classes in educational institutions.
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The hijab row has also taken a political color, as the ruling BJP has stood strongly in support of uniform-related rules being enforced by educational institutions, calling the headscarf, a religious symbol, while the opposition Congress has come out in support of protesting Muslim girls.
The issue that initially began in January at a Government PU College in Udupi where six students who attended classes wearing headscarves in violation of the stipulated dress code were sent out, has spread to a few other colleges in the city and nearby Kundapur and Byndoor.
There have also been reports of similar instances of students turning up at educational institutions with either hijab or saffron shawl in Ramdurg PU College in Belagavi and a college in Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, and Shivamogga, and also a group of girls staging demonstrations in Mysuru and Kalaburagi in favor of the hijab.