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Karnataka Minister Says, โ€œTeachers Insisting On Hijab, Given Option To Skip Dutyโ€

Bangalore: Karnataka Minister of Primary and Secondary Education BC Nagesh stated that the government has given an option to the teachers who are insisting on wearing hijab while performing their exam duty.

Speaking to news agency ANI, the minister said, โ€œWe have made uniforms compulsory. It is the moral duty of any teacher to see that they also come how children come to the school. In many schools, children questioned us that we are prohibiting the students from putting hijab but the teachers are putting hijab. So we requested them not to do that because they will be in front of the students in the classroom.โ€

Nagesh said that most teachers have accepted the appeal of not wearing hijab inside the classroom, made by the government. He said that few teachers wanted hijab, and there is no pressure on them. He said, โ€œMost of them accepted and are doing the duties without hijab. There were a few teachers who wanted a hijab. We have not forced them. We gave them the option they may come to the exam duty or they may not.โ€

Several students have skipped classes, and are not giving exams, following the Karnataka High Courtโ€™s decision in February to ban the hijab in educational institutes, considering it a non-essential practice in Islam.

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Determined To Do Whatever Needed To Ensure Party Unity, Says Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi

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New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president, addressed at a weekly gathering of party MPs today on the partyโ€™s โ€œsad and devastatingโ€ election losses, emphasising โ€œunity at all levelsโ€ and resilience.  

Sonia Gandhi also stated that she had received numerous recommendations for strengthening the Congress and that she was working on โ€œmany of them.โ€

โ€œI am very well aware how disappointed you are at the recent election results. They have been both shocking and painful,โ€ Mrs Gandhi said at the Congress Parliamentary Party meet.

Sonia Gandhi also stated that she had received numerous recommendations for strengthening the Congress and that she was working on โ€œmany of them.โ€

She alluded to a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) held shortly after the results of five state elections were announced last month. Mrs Gandhi, along with her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, offered to quit during the meeting amid calls for a leadership change after the Congress lost Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and failed to make a return in three states.

โ€œThe CWC has met once to review our performance. I have met with other colleagues too. I have received many suggestions on how to strengthen our organization. Many are pertinent and I am working on them,โ€ Mrs Gandhi said today.

She said a Shivir โ€“ organising a โ€œChintan Shivirโ€ or introspection meet was among the decisions taken at the CWC โ€“ was โ€œalso very necessaryโ€.

โ€œThat is where the views of a larger number of colleagues and party representatives will be heard. They will contribute to put forward a clear roadmap on the urgent steps to be taken by our party on how best to meet the challenges we are confronted with,โ€ she said.

โ€œOur rebirth is not only a matter of importance to us alone โ€“ it is, in reality, necessary for our democracy itself and therefore for our society as well,โ€ the Congress president added, describing the road ahead as โ€œmore arduous than ever before.โ€

Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister, and Rahul Gandhi were also present at the meeting.

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