Minister's remarks muddy waters in communally sensitive hijab row

GENERAL Education Minister V Sivankutty has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his remarks blaming St Rita’s Public School in Kochi for the hijab row, even as political as well as communal organisations jostled with one another to exploit the situation. All this while the child at the centre of the controversy has not been able to attend classes due to the media glare.

- MANOJ VISWANATHAN @Kochi

Sivankutty's remarks, made hours after the issue was amicably settled following the intervention of MP Hibi Eden on Tuesday evening, have vitiated the atmosphere. An issue between a parent and the school has now become political, threatening to blow up into a communal one. Though

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