Hijab Row: 'Avoid Religion-Specific' Attire, Reads MP College Notice To Students

The notice issued by the college administration asked its students to "not wear community-specific outfits, hijab in college."

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New Delhi: As the Karnataka hijab row intensifies, an autonomous Post Graduate College in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh has issued notice banning Muslim women from wearing hijab (Headscarf) inside the college.

The notice issued by the college administration asked its students to "not wear community-specific outfits, hijab in college."

The order by the principal came after a group of students, having association with right wing outfits, protested inside the college campus demanding ban on wearing hijab.

According to news agency ANI, a video had emerged of two girls wearing headscarves in the Agrani Government Autonomous PG College which irked a group of students who began protests against hijab.

Madhya Pradesh | A PG Govt College in Datia asks its students to "not wear community-specific outfits, hijab in college," following a demonstration by some protesters after a video showing two students wearing hijab in the college emerged

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— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2022

Later, the college principal DR Rahul conducted an inspection to identify the girls wearing hijab and issued a ban which stated, "All students are being informed, not to wear community-specific outfits, hijab in college."

Earlier, an M.Com student wearing hijab at the same college was permitted to take her third-semester exam after giving an undertaking to the principal in-charge SP Singh to refrain from wearing hijab in college premises.

A few days back sate education minister Inder Singh Parmar had spoken of banning hijab in educational institutes and introducing new dress codes.

However, Parmar later took a U-turn  and said that his statement was taken in a different context.

Meanwhile, schools till standard X reopened across Karnataka on Monday. The government on February 9, had ordered all schools and colleges to be shut after the hijab row turned violent in the state.

The hijab controversy in Karnataka started after pre-university students in some government colleges in Udupi district were barred from entering classrooms with headscarves.