PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti  |  Photo Credit: ANI
Srinagar, J&K: Amid row over hijab, former Jammu and Kashmir CM and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleging that the saffron party wants to erase all symbols of Muslims.
“I fear BJP won’t stop at Hijab. They will come for other symbols of Muslims and erase all. For Indian Muslims it is not enough to be an Indian, they have to be BJP as well,” ANI quoted the Mufti as saying in Srinagar.
“Jammu and Kashmir is a political matter but they (BJP) want to make it a community matter,” she added.
The Hijab protests began on February 4 at the Government Girls PU college in Udupi district in Karnataka when some students alleged that they had been barred from attending classes wearing hijab (a headscarf worn by Muslim women).
During the protests, some students were allegedly denied entry to college wearing hijab earlier this month.
Following these protests, a three-day holiday from February 9 has been declared in all the universities under the Department of Higher Education and colleges under the department of Collegiate and Technical Education (DCTE).
Meanwhile, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah also jumped into the row and said that everyone has the right to eat as they wish and is free to practice their religious beliefs.
“There are some radical elements who are attacking a particular religion in an attempt to win polls by dividing people along the communal lines,” Abdullah said while talking to reporters in Pulwama.