Council For Unity Of Muslims Party Activists Protest In Support Of Hijab In Maharashtra

AIMIM Activists Support Hijab: All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) activists put up banners to support hijab in the Karnataka Hijab Row in Maharashtra’s Beed city. The banners read “Pehle hijab, fir kitaab” (first hijab, then books) but were later removed by the activists. The Police Inspector of Beed Police Station mentioned that the banners were put without permission. The activist reportedly cooperated with the Police and removed the banners after putting them up for one day.

AIMIM activists support the hijab in the Karnataka hijab row by putting up banners in the Beed city of Maharashtra. The activists also propagated that the Indian Constitution provides the right to practice one’s religion with the freedom to its citizens. The banners put up by AIMIM displayed slogans that read “Pehle hijab, fir kitaab” (first hijab, then books).

The banners had been put down after a day since the Beed Police Station Inspector mentioned that the activists had put the banners without permission. The activists complied with the Police and removed the banners after one day, “We told them (the activists) that they had put up the banners without permission. They understood and removed the banners," the Beed Police Inspector Ravi Sanap said.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) member Luqman Farooqui mentioned that those who are opposing hijab should read the Indian Constitution as it provides the right to follow one’s religious practices. “to convey this message, we had put up banners in support of the ‘hijab’ in Beed for one day,” Farooqui said.

Priyanka Gandhi’s Bikini Tweet

Priyanka Gandhi also took to Twitter in support of Muslim girls wearing hijab mentioning that women should not be harassed for their choice of clothes. They have the right to wear what they want as per the Indian Constitution. “Whether it is a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans, or a hijab, it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear," Priyanka Gandhi wrote on Twitter.

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Muslim Boys Sat Outside College In Solidarity with Girls Banned From Attending College

Forty Muslim boys sat outside Junior PU Government College when girls wearing hijab were denied entry in the college premises. The college administration had insisted the girls on wearing scarves to cover their heads instead of Hijab when a group of boys showed up in college wearing saffron shawls expressing their condemnation about Hijab.

The Muslim boys protested against the dismissal of girls wearing Hijab and expressed their solidarity with them sitting outside the college premises.