The Jammu and Kashmir College students Affiliation (JKSA) has appealed to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to urgently intervene in an incident of alleged non secular discrimination at a nursing school in Bengaluru.
In a letter written to the chief minister, the JKSA acknowledged that feminine college students from Kashmir at Sri Soubhagya Lalitha School of Nursing had been barred from attending lessons and threatened with expulsion for carrying the hijab or burqa. The faculty is affiliated with the Rajiv Gandhi College of Well being Sciences (RGUHS).
“These Kashmiri feminine college students have been systematically focused, humiliated, and denied their basic proper to schooling solely as a result of they select to put on the burkha or abaya,” the Affiliation mentioned within the letter.
JKSA’s Nationwide Convenor Nasir Khuehami claimed the faculty chairman entered a classroom and ordered hijab-wearing college students to depart. When questioned, the chairman allegedly mentioned, “That is our school; solely our guidelines apply,” and warned the scholars they might be terminated and their information withheld if they didn’t comply.
The Affiliation burdened that no authorized or college coverage prohibits hijab or burkha in school rooms, calling the enforcement of such a ban unlawful and discriminatory. Khuehami famous that the administration justified the transfer by citing objections from different college students and claimed, “hijab and pardah will not be allowed for medical college students wherever within the nation.”
JKSA condemned these remarks as “absurd, Islamophobic stereotypes” and described the incident as a “harmful violation” of constitutional rights, citing Articles 25, 15, and 21A of the Indian Structure.
Highlighting the emotional and psychological toll, Khuehami mentioned: “It’s heartbreaking and enraging in equal measure that college students from a conflict-affected area…at the moment are being subjected to such humiliation and trauma.”
The Affiliation warned that the incident sends a chilling message to all minority college students and undermines Karnataka’s legacy of inclusivity. It urged the Chief Minister to direct the Training Division, RGUHS, and the Minority Fee to analyze the matter and be certain that affected college students can return to class with out compromising their non secular beliefs.
JKSA additionally known as for disciplinary motion towards the faculty officers concerned and emphasised the necessity to restore belief amongst Kashmiri college students learning within the state.
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