Digital Desk: The All India Bar Association has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps to ensure that, in order to maintain secular ideals, the government requires students to wear uniforms and prohibits Muslim women from wearing hijab and niqabin at secular schools.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, All India Bar Association chairman senior advocate Dr Adish C Aggarwala has asked for his help after witnessing how many anti-social elements are attempting to undermine secular values in educational institutions by persuading Muslim students to wear Niqab, Hijab, Burqa, and other similar garments instead of the prescribed secular dress code.
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India is a secular country. Secularism forms a part of the basic structure of our Constitution, he said. In the Apex Court decision, in the matter titled S R Bommai vs Union of India, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has held that “When the State allows citizens to practise and profess their religions, it does not either explicitly or implicitly allow them to introduce religion into non-religious and secular activities of the State.”
That “freedom and tolerance of religion is only to the extent of permitting pursuit of spiritual life which is different from secular life”, the chairman said.
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