New Delhi, October 15, 2022 (PPI-OT):The President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Member of Indian Parliament, Asaduddin Owaisi, has said that hijab-wearing Muslim woman will become Prime Minister of India someday. A gathering in the Indian city of Hyderabad maintained that wearing hijab doesn’t make Muslim women any less than their peers, and it is their constitutional right to choose to wear whatever they wish to.

Owaisi said Muslim women covering their heads doesn’t mean they cover their minds as well. “They say we are threatening our girls. Who gets scared these days?” the Hyderabad MP said. On the ban on the hijab in Karnataka the AIMIM chief said it signals to students from other religions that Muslims are inferior. “When a Hindu, a Sikh, and a Christian student is allowed to enter the classroom with their religious signifiers and a Muslim is stopped, what do they think of the Muslim student? Obviously, they will think Muslims are below us,” he said.

He then asserted that a hijab wearing Muslim woman will become the Prime Minister of India someday. He quoted Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, one of the Supreme Court judges who heard the challenge to the Karnataka hijab ban, saying if Muslim girls wear hijab indie and outside their homes, why wouldn’t they wear it in classrooms, it’s a matter of their dignity and privacy. Challenging the BJP and its ideological mentor RSS, Owaisi said their decisions don’t matter, and Muslim girls will keep wearing the hijab like they have been by their own choice. Petitions challenging the Karnataka hijab ban led to a split verdict in the Indian Supreme Court on Thursday. While Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the petitions, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia allowed them.

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