A day after his comments that hijab is not part of the school dress code and should be banned, Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar has reversed his position. On Wednesday, Parmar clarified that no dress code would be devised for schools in the state.
The minister’s statement had come in the wake of the hijab spat. When reports circulated that the MP was planning to ban hijab in schools, the minister suddenly returned on Tuesday afternoon and said a school dress code will be devised that will be equal for everyone and not linked to any community or religion.
By this time, the case had turned into a major controversy with dissent voices beginning to echo on social media platforms. Congressional MLA Arif Masood had even announced that he would protest the move once it was implemented. Things took a complete turn for the worse on Wednesday when the minister went back on his statement.
In a video clarification, the school education minister said he referred to a unified code to equality and identity of schools, but it was presented in a distorted way and I reject these reports. “We will not introduce a new dress code and the traditional system will prevail in schools.”
Minister of the Interior Dr. Narottm Mishra clarified during his daily media briefing on the hijab row that no such proposal is pending with the state government. There is absolutely no confusion about this, according to the minister.
To add, this is not the first time the school education minister has differed from his cabinet colleagues.
Recently, the minister took a different stance from his own government on the issue of continuing schools in offline mode amid the threat of coronavirus, which was only too eager to reopen schools despite the covid19 threat being moderate. . The minister publicly referred to the covid19 threat, at a time when his government was hinting at reopening schools.
Meanwhile, the Congress party chose to fish in murky waters. The spokesman for party chief KK Mishra, who responded on Wednesday to the statement by the interior minister, demanded the resignation of the school education minister for giving the wrong statement on the dress code issue.
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