GURGAON: Controversy erupted in Sonipat’s Badauli village earlier this week when members of a right-wing outfit protested towards a faculty programme the place some college students wore hijabs.
At Govt Senior Secondary Faculty on Wednesday, a bunch of scholars organised a play to advertise amity and spiritual concord. College students represented members of various communities and wore clothes related to them.Some ladies wore hijabs.
The day ended peacefully. However hassle erupted on Thursday when footage of the play have been circulated on social media.
Manish Rai, who identifies himself because the president of Akhand Hindu Swabhiman Sangathan, led a bunch of villagers to the varsity premises and raised slogans towards the principal and lecturers.
The protesters accused them of main Hindu college students towards their faith by making them put on hijabs. A police staff needed to be deployed to forestall any untoward state of affairs.
“Sure, we panicked when villagers and members of the outfit entered the compound and created a ruckus. We referred to as police and a staff reached the varsity to pacify the villagers. The protesters demanded that the principal and lecturers of the varsity be transferred elsewhere for hurting their spiritual sentiment,” a faculty staffer mentioned.
Principal Praveen Gulia tried to purpose with members of the outfit, saying the varsity had merely organised a multi-faith programme and the scholars have been wearing hijabs to advertise amity in step with instructions of the schooling division.
However the protest and heckling didn’t cease. It was solely after Gulia apologised and promised by no means to carry such programmes on the varsity campus that the protesters left.
District schooling officer (Sonipat) Jitendra Kumar mentioned the play was not supposed at hurting anybody’s spiritual sentiments and guaranteed such occasions wouldn’t be organised sooner or later. “We’re getting ready a report on the incident and can ship it to the government quickly,” he added.
