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In a statement here, the president of the Muslim Central Committee and former MLC Haji K S Masood criticized the MLAs in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi for trying to derive political gains from the row.
He said the principal of a college does not have the right to disallow students into class for wearing hijab.
The principal should prove under whose orders he had told the students to not wear hijab.
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He also criticized Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge Minister V Sunil Kumar for his remarks on the issue.
The students have approached the court seeking safeguarding the rights guaranteed in the Constitution, Masood said in the statement.