Students Turn Up In Saffron Scarves Amid Row Over Hijab In Karnataka
NDTV
Police personnel were breaking up groups of saffron-clad protestors who gathered near what appears to be a market area and raised slogans.
Amid heated protests in Karnataka by some Muslim women to be allowed to attend classes wearing a hijab, a group of students again marched to their college wearing saffron scarves. Videos from Kundapur in the Udupi district show boys and girls donning the scarves over their college uniforms and raising slogans of "Jai Shri Ram (praise Lord Ram)" while going to college.
Muslim students can be seen in a separate queue wearing headscarves over their uniforms. A police vehicle is also seen stationed near the college.
Police personnel were breaking up groups of saffron-clad protestors who gathered near what appears to be a market area and raised slogans, the videos show.
Earlier videos from the coastal town of Kundapur showed students of the Government Junior College in headscarves, arguing with their principal, Ramakrishna GJ after they were denied entry into the campus.
