Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi
New Delhi, Feb 5: Reacting to the growing controversy over the wearing of hijab in educational institutes, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the nation is robbing the future of the girl students by letting the issue come in way of their education.
Rahul Gandhi tweeted on Saturday February 5, “By letting students’ hijab come in the way of their education, we are robbing the future of the daughters of India. Ma Saraswati gives knowledge to all. She doesn’t differentiate.”
It may be recalled, wearing of hijab by some students at a government pre-university college in Udupi led to a controversy. The hijab row spread to other schools across the district. A government college principal in Kundapur asked girl students not to come to college wearing hijabs.
Late in the evening on Saturday, state government ordered the mandatory wearing of uniform approved by the state government on school and college campuses. The state government clearly instructed that kids at government schools, colleges must wear uniforms approved by the state government and in private institutions, the uniform approved by the management.