The Karnataka hijab controversy has spread to Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), with a protest that is planned to be held on Friday.
Students at AMU had planned a protest march within campus grounds on Wednesday but were refused permission due to the district Assembly elections taking place on Thursday.
Nearly two dozen students gathered at Duck Point on the AMU campus to protest over the Karnataka hijab controversy. After deciding to stage a protest march on campus on Friday, the students there raised religious slogans and dispersed.
“A sister of ours was prevented from entering the school grounds by goons at a college in Karnataka. This is a violation of every citizen’s constitutional rights,” said an AMU student who gathered at Duck Point.
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Students had requested authorisation in writing for carrying out a march in solidarity with girl students in Karnataka who were denied entry to college premises for wearing hijab, said AMU proctor Mohd Wasim Ali.
He also said the students were told that such a protest march at the time of the assembly elections may cause a law-and-order situation. Since the message for the protest march had spread on social media, thus some students gathered at Duck Point on AMU campus on Wednesday but they, too, dispersed later.
The students said that the university administration has not refused permission for the protest march at AMU against the Karnataka hijab controversy, but has only postponed it because the polling is to take place in Aligarh on Thursday, which is why the students agreed to delay the protest march to Friday.
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