The Muslim students who are protesting against uniform regulations in the state and had begun the protest were in contact with radical Islamic outfit CFI.
BJP's Brijesh Singh Rawat is the sitting MLA from Deoband. He had defeated BSP's Majid Ali by over 29,000 votes in 2017. AIMIM has fielded Umar Madani while SP has nominated Kartikeya Rana.
In Islamic countries like Afghanistan, where Sharia is the law of land, hijab, burqa are mandatory and not wearing one is punishable. Women in Afghanistan have been killed for not wearing burqa as per Sharia.
It is time to move beyond simplistic virtue signalling on the issue of Hijab and analyse the issue without bias. We owe it to the pioneers of feminism.