Video: Girl wearing hijab heckled by Hindu students at PES college

Ground Report | New Delhi: PES College Hijab; As the hijab controversy escalated in Karnataka, a video of a hijabi student surfaced on social media on Tuesday, chanting "Jai Shri Ram" by a group of saffron-clad students.

In a viral video, the girl is seen parking a two-wheeler and going towards the classroom when a group of youths start waving saffron dupatta on her. He is also seen chanting "Jai Shri Ram" and moving towards the Muslim student. In response, the girl raises her hand to raise the slogan and shouts "Allah Hu Akbar,"

She continues to walk towards the classroom while the boys charge towards her. "What right do they have to ask us to remove the hijab?" She stops and responds before being escorted by the college staff.

"Alone Muslim girl on the way to her college in Karnataka, India is being heckled and harassed by a Hindu right-wing mob for wearing a hijab!" Professor Ashok Swain of Uppsala University said on Twitter.

Recently, this matter came into the limelight when about half a dozen girl students of a pre-university government college in Udupi refused to remove the hijab.

These second-year girls turned down the appeal to take off the hijab and sit in the class. When these girl students were not listened to, they started protesting. The matter escalated when some students wearing saffron shawls came to the college in Udupi district in response to the girls wearing hijab.

After this, the girl students also tried to enter a private college by wearing saffron shawls as a procession. The matter kept on gaining momentum and political parties also jumped into this controversy.

The girl students have filed a petition in the High Court to stop wearing the hijab. They say that wearing hijab is their constitutional right. So they cannot be stopped from this.

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