New Delhi: Blaming Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the hijab controversy, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said that if he could wear a cap and go to the parliament, why students in Karnataka could not wear hijab at their colleges.
Slamming BJP further, Owaisi further said that those who claimed to be secular parties have decided to be a mere spectator and have closed their ears and eyes over radicalization.
"I am talking about the Constitution of India. I am talking about the judgments of India's Supreme Court. If I can wear a cap and go to Parliament, why can't a girl wear a hijab and go to college?,'' he said during an exclusive interview with Times Now.
He also raised questions over saffron party's mandate in 2014, 2017 and in 2019 and said how did the BJP win.
Meanwhile, he also slammed the opposition parties for not speaking up against the BJP.
"Whose votes do they have? What are they afraid of?" he added.
The hijab row began last month when six students alleged that they were not allowed to enter classes for wearing the hijab at the Government Girls PU College in Udupi.
However, the matter related to the hijab ban in the state of Karnataka has been referred to a larger bench by the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday.
The single bench has refrained from passing interim orders allowing girl students to attend colleges wearing hijab. The single bench said that a larger bench will consider an interim relief.
''Having regard for the enormity of questions of importance which are being debated, the court is of the considered opinion that the papers be put at the hand of Chief Justice to decide if a larger bench can be constituted in the subject matter," Justice Krishna Dixit said.
In the meantime, protests, agitations, demonstrations and gathering within an area of 200-meter radius of schools, colleges or other similar educational institutions in Bengaluru has been banned by the Karnataka police for two weeks.
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