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Minister’s remarks muddy waters in communally sensitive hijab row
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|October 16, 2025
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.
Sivankutty softened his stand on Wednesday, the issue seems to have spiralled out of control.
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