"How Can Court Equate Classrooms With Army Camps?": Asaduddin Owaisi On Hijab Ban

Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) today questioned the premises of the Karnataka High Court upholding the ban on hijab, saying the court's examples of a gurukul, prison or an army camp cannot be equated to schools. He also argued against the homogeneity that school uniforms are meant to bring, pointing out that many nations do not require uniforms in school.  "If you look at the Constitution, pluralism and diversity are the basic structures of the Constitution. Homogeneity is not," Mr Owaisi told NDTV in an exclusive interview after the High Court turned down petitions from a group of students to allow hijab in classrooms.