Some students from the arts faculty, affiliated with the Students Federation of India (SFI), the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), exhibited a poster accusing a section of the department staff of 'Islamophobia.'
A controversy erupted after the father of a Muslim student created a commotion at St. Rita’s School in Kochi over the school’s refusal to allow his daughter to wear a hijab.
On Tuesday (13th October), Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty, disregarding the school dress code, directed the school to allow an eighth standard female student to wear hijab in the school. The management of the CBSE-affiliated school, run by the Latin Catholic Church, had declined the female student’s request to be allowed to wear a hijab, citing the school dress code.
According to the new rules, students must remove their religious attire in a designated common room located on the ground floor. It is only then that they can proceed for their classes.
Karnataka-like hijab row erupted in Rajasthan on Saturday (17th February) as female students at a government school in Jodhpur arrived in hijab instead of the prescribed dress code
Highlighting anti-Hindi and anti-Sanatan remarks by allies of the Congress party, Kavitha firmly demanded that Rahul Gandhi should come out and prove that he is not anti-Hindu and anti-poor.