Hijab row: AIMIM put up posters in Maharashtra’s Beed 
Mumbai: Amid the hijab controversy in Karnataka, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) workers put up posters reading ‘pehle hijab, phir kitaab’ (first hijab and then studies) in Maharashtra’s Beed district.
Speaking to the media, an AIMIM worker said that wearing a hijab or burqa is a centuries-old custom in Islam and Muslim women and girls venture out of their homes by wearing a hijab or a burqa.
These days girls are wearing very short dresses, we don’t comment against it or stop them so we should also be allowed to follow our traditions in accordance to Islam, the AIMIM worker further said.
Earlier, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi slammed the BJP governmnet in Karnataka over hijab row saying that grave violations of the constitution are being committed in the state.
“I pray that our sisters fighting for their right to wear hijab are successful in their fight. Grave violations of the Constitution’s Articles 15, 19 and 21 are being committed in Karnataka. I condemn this decision of Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government,” said Owaisi while addressing a public rally in Uttar Pradesh.
Karnataka witnessed protests after some students were allegedly denied entry to college wearing hijab (a headscarf worn by Muslim women). The hijab controversy started after some girl students at the Government Girls PU college in Udupi district who wanted to wear hijab inside the premises were allegedly barred from attending classes.
As per the order released by the pre-University education board students can only wear the uniform approved by the school and college administrations and no other religious practices will be allowed.
Meanwhile, the single judge of the Karnataka High Court hearing the hijab ban case in school-college campuses referred the matter to Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi.
“In view of the enormity of questions of importance which were debated, the court is of the considered opinion that the Chief Justice should decide if a larger bench can be constituted in the subject matter,” Justice Dixit said.