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Wearing hijabs amounts to indiscipline says Karnataka education minister
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Karnataka Education Minister BC Nagesh on Wednesday said that the practice of wearing hijabs amounted to indiscipline and that schools and colleges were not a place to practice religion, NDTV reported.
A day after his statements, Muslim students of a government college in Udupi district, who were barred from wearing a hijab to class from January 1, have started a protest.