Muslim students are continuing to protest outside their college gate on Friday after they were barred from entering the premises for wearing a hijab. The college is located in Karnataka state, India.
Police arrived at the protest after hundreds of students joined the sit-in protest and demanded that the girls be allowed to enter the college.
They were chanting, “We want Education”.
Parents of the students also joined and questioned college authorities on sending their children out of school and making them stand on the road for wearing a hijab. However, college authorities claim that they have to follow the orders from the government.
The management claims that if they allow hijab on their campus then other Hindu students would take saffron shawls and religious symbolism is not permitted in the educational institute.
Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that religion should be kept away from education and students should neither come wearing hijab or saffron shawls to schools.
On Thursday, the principal of the college closed the gate for students wearing hijab. This incident happened after some Hindu students in saffron shawls were stopped at the gate as well.
They were raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.
Another government college in Karnataka has banned the hijab and saffron scarves over rising tension fears.