Digital Desk: Asaduddin Owaisi, a Lok Sabha MP and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief, stated on Sunday that a girl wearing a hijab would be India's prime minister one day. This remark came during the Karnataka hijab row controversy, which followed Muslim students being denied entry to their institution due to their hijabs.
On Sunday, Owaisi, chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, posted a video stating that women who wear hijabs will go to institute and become district collectors, magistrates, doctors, businesswomen, and so on.
"I may not be living to see it, but mark my words, one day a hijab-wearing girl will be the Prime Minister," Owaisi said in the video to the audiences.
He continued, "If our daughters decide and tell their parents they want to wear hijabs, their parents will support them. So let's see who will be able to stop them!"
The Karnataka hijab controversy was initiated after young Muslim students in the Udupi district were denied access to their institution because they wore hijabs.
As more institutes and academies issued similar orders, the issue extended across the state. Students from competing institutions started opposing in consent of and against the liberty to wear hijabs in educational establishments. Opponents of the Muslim girls wore saffron scarves, and the ideological disagreements became physical in a few localities.
The conflict exploded into a full-fledged war of expressions, with national political groups waging conflict on each other over the matter. The demonstrations have since spread across the nation, and the issue is now before the Supreme Court.
The Karnataka High Court judged on Thursday that no religious symbols are allowed for students until the court issues a final order, thus prohibiting both hijab and saffron shawls from being worn at school and college.
"In the topic of the hijab row, we'd want to issue an interim order." The state must regain its peace. Schools and colleges must reopen as quickly as possible. This isn't the final decision. Students must attend school in uniform without a hijab or saffron shawls until the final judgement is issued," Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, who is leading a three-judge bench considering the case, stated.
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