Hindu supremacists search a wider ban on Muslim women sporting hijab in school rooms after Karnataka court docket’s controversial verdict.
Hindu supremacist teams are demanding restrictions on Muslim women sporting hijab in school rooms in additional Indian states after a court docket upheld a ban on the normal scarf in Karnataka state, worrying college students who had protested in opposition to the ban.
The Karnataka Excessive Court docket’s resolution on Tuesday, backing the southern state’s February ban on the hijab, has additionally been welcomed by high federal ministers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), who say college students ought to keep away from sporting non secular clothes at school.
A feminine Muslim pupil has already appealed the decision within the nation’s highest court docket, which might take up the matter later this month, her lawyer stated on Twitter.
Have filed SLP in opposition to the Hijab Judgment. took monumental workforce effort to file on identical day . Whereas Me, @munshi_nova broke down the judgment, @iamasif98, @EbadR101, @Areebuddin14 did all of the drafting beneath steering of Shahrukh and @jrcounsel. Thanks all. Sorry for all screaming https://t.co/VwO1cFySlY
— Anas Tanwir (बुकरात वकील) (@Vakeel_Sb) March 15, 2022
“I imagine it's a improper interpretation of the regulation,” lawyer Anas Tanwir instructed Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
“So far as important non secular follow is anxious, [that] shouldn't have been the query. The query ought to have been whether or not the [authorities] had the ability to go such orders.”
There is no such thing as a nationwide guideline on uniforms in India and states typically depart it to varsities to resolve what their college students ought to put on.
‘We're a Hindu nation’
“We're a Hindu nation and we don't wish to see any sort of non secular outfit in academic institutes of the nation,” stated Rishi Trivedi, president of the Hindu-first group Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha.
“We welcome the court docket verdict and need the identical rule to be adopted all through the nation.”
The ban in BJP-ruled Karnataka had sparked protests by some Muslim college students and oldsters, and counterprotests by Hindu college students.
Critics of the ban say it's one other approach of marginalising the Muslim group, which accounts for about 14 p.c of Hindu-majority India’s 1.35 billion individuals.
Leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), an affiliate of BJP mother or father organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevvak Sangh (RSS), stated they've requested for a hijab ban in Modi’s residence state of Gujarat and would quickly write to the nation’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
The BJP is in energy in each states.
“The hijab shouldn't be allowed within the defence forces, police, and authorities workplaces, then why the insistence on hijab in colleges and faculties?” stated VHP’s Gujarat secretary, Ashok Raval. “It's an try to boost communal tensions.”
Gujarat Training Minister Jitu Vaghani declined to remark. A state minister and a bureaucrat, talking on situation of anonymity, stated there was no speedy plan to ban the hijab in colleges.
Officers in Uttar Pradesh, the place the BJP retained management in latest state elections, declined to remark, saying a call will solely be taken by the following administration which needs to be in place in days.
Ayesha Hajeera Almas – who had challenged the Karnataka ban in court docket – stated there's a actual worry that the hijab ban will now go nationwide.
The 18-year-old stated she has not attended faculty since late December after its authorities barred Muslim women from sporting the hijab, even earlier than the state-wide ban got here in early February.
“More and more, we really feel we live in an India the place its residents are usually not handled equally,” Almas stated from the Karnataka district of Udupi, from the place the protests started.
“I'm combating for myself, combating for my sisters, combating for my faith. I’m scared that there shall be modifications like this in the entire nation. However I hope it doesn't occur.”
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