Karnataka Hijab Row: BJP Leader CT Ravi Takes Jibe At Priyanka, Says One Can't Go To School Wearing Bikini

His jeer comes a day after the Congress leader said that it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear.

Karnataka Hijab Row: BJP Leader Takes Jibe At Priyanka's Statement, Says One Can't Go To Schools Wearing Bikini (Image: Getty)

New Delhi: Amid the raging controversy in Karnataka over wearing of hijab at educational institutions, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary CT Ravi said an individual is free to wear any dress of her choice outside schools but inside the premises, the students have to don the school uniform.

Taking a jibe at Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, Ravi said that although Gandhi said, women can even wear a bikini inside the school, students can’t go to educational institutes wearing such attire. It’s not right to play politics in schools, he added.

Uniforms should be donned in schools. You are free to wear whatever you want, outside school. Priyanka Gandhi said women can wear bikini but one can't go to school, college wearing a bikini. It's not right to play politics in the school: BJP General Secretary CT Ravi on hijab row pic.twitter.com/uvMMaXzsWs

— ANI (@ANI) February 10, 2022

His comments come a day after the Congress leader said that it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear. The right has been guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. A woman can choose to wear a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans or a hijab, Gandhi had said.

Gandhi linked the issue with the Congress's poll slogan of women empowerment in Uttar Pradesh 'Ladki hoon lad sakti hoon'.

Whether it is a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans or a hijab, it is a woman’s right to decide what she wants to wear.

This right is GUARANTEED by the Indian constitution. Stop harassing women. #ladkihoonladsaktihoon

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) February 9, 2022

Earlier, the BJP leader had courted controversy with his statement that the girls must stop going to school if they couldn’t follow the school rules.

“Today, THEY will ask permission to attend school wearing Hijab. Tomorrow, THEY will demand Sharia Law. ONE SCHOOL, ONE UNIFORM. If you are not following the school rules, stop going to school. Schools are not your personal space that you can wear whatever you want," the BJP leader had tweeted.

Today, THEY will ask permission to attend school wearing Hijab.

Tomorrow, THEY will demand Sharia Law.

ONE SCHOOL, ONE UNIFORM.

If you are not following the school rules, stop going to school.

Schools are not your personal space that you can wear whatever you want.

— C T Ravi 🇮🇳 ಸಿ ಟಿ ರವಿ (@CTRavi_BJP) February 4, 2022

The ongoing row can be traced back to the beginning of January when some students in Udupi and Chikkamagaluru started wearing hijab to schools as a mark of protest after some of them were not allowed to enter the classroom for wearing the headscarves.