A group of hijab-wearing Muslim students at a government-run college in Karnataka was barred from classes for weeks
India has become a dangerous country for minorities as discrimination against minorities and women is touching its new peak under the fascist BJP-led Hindutva regime.
The minorities, including Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and low-caste Hindus, are facing systematic oppression at the hands of Hindutva forces and are being tortured mentally, physically, and economically, according to a report published by Kashmir Media Services.
The report claimed that state-backed persecution of minorities in India has increased manifold under fascist Modi’s rule, adding that violence, terrorization and harassment against women and minorities has become a routine matter.
Further, the Kashmir Media Services report maintained that the exponentially increasing number of attacks against minorities and women have exposed the true face of the world’s so-called largest democracy. The report criticized Modi for shaping India’s national policy according to the dictation of the Hindutva forces.
The KMS report urged the international community to take notice of the massive human rights violations in India against minorities, particularly the violence against Muslims in Kashmir being committed by the Indian troops.
Muslim girls wearing hijab barred from classes at Indian college
In a separate incident, reported by the BBC, a government-run women college in Udupi district of Karnatka state a group of Muslim students was forced to sit out of class for several weeks because were wearing hijab or headscarfs. The girls were marked absent from their classes despite them going to the college every day.
Defending the decision, the College principal said it was necessary for the teachers to see faces of the students.
Meanwhile, in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti has termed the Indian government’s admission that “situation is not normal in the territory” as self-contradictory.