Protest the ban on the hijab in school India increasingly widespread. Hundreds of disciples in the city of Kolkata took to the streets protesting about the hijab ban in the state of Karnataka, on Wednesday (9/2).
According to eyewitnesses, the students who protested in Kolkata, most of whom are Muslim women who wears hijab.
Some of the students say they will return march over the next few days.
“We will continue protesting until the government stopped insulting the students,” said Tasmeen Sultana, one of the protestants, to Reuters.
“We want to fundamental rights we come back, You can’t take our rights.”
In addition to Kolkata, the protests also occurred in the capital city of India, New Delhi.
Meanwhile, a group of students of the Hindu also protest counterpoint with flocked to the school as a form of support for a ban on the hijab.
The second protest camps was to make the government of Karnataka to close the school and campus for three days for the sake of ease the tension between the students of Muslim and Hindu.
Earlier, local media reported several schools in Karnataka forbid their students go to school when wearing the hijab. This ban was done on the orders of the Ministry of Education of India.
The ban is then drawn protests from students and parents.
In a video, it looks a disciple of Muslim women who wear the hijab surrounded by Hindu youths. These young men chanted religious slogans when the woman tried to enter the school in Karnataka.
In addition, this ban also get a response from the activist for girls ‘ education, Malala Yousafzai. He asked the Indian leader to “stop the marginalization of Muslim women,” in a Twitter statement.
“Refusing to allow women to go to school with their hijab scary. Objectification against women is still there,” said Yousafzai, on Tuesday (8/2).
Government of Karnataka own shade 12 percent of the Muslim population. The government region was led by officials of the nationalist party Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), led by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
The government of Karnataka encourage students to follow uniform rules in accordance that made the school.
Opposition parties and critics accused the BJP government discriminate against Muslims at the level of state and federal.
Meanwhile, Modi denied the allegations and said the economic and social policies that he has made will benefit all citizens of India.
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