September 30, 2023 04:08 am | Updated 04:08 am IST - RAIPURMembers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) caused a ruckus at a private school in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna on Friday after a video showing students wearing hijab surfaced on social media. According to the police, the video is from a cultural programme held at Prince Global School on the occasion of Ganeshotsav and Eid Milad-un-Nabi. Also Read | The interpretative answer to the hijab rowThe protesters, who alleged that Hindu girls were made to wear hijab, were seen engaged in a heated debate with representatives of the school management, who apologised to the ABVP members. Rakesh Kumar Sagar, Superintendent of Police, Guna, said that neither side approached the police with any complaint. In June this year, images of non-Muslim girls wearing hijab were put up outside a school in Damoh district of the election-bound State, triggering a major political controversy followed by a police probe.

Source: The Hindu September 30, 2023 13:37 UTC