A day after an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban the burqa, lyricist Javed Akhtar Thursday said the move should be accompanied with a similar action against the ‘ghunghat’ system prevalent among women in Rajasthan. Advertising“If you want to bring a law banning burqa here (in India) and if it is someone’s view I have no objection. “I feel that ‘ghunghat’ should go and the burqa should go. The law in Sri Lanka (now), too, forbids face cover,” Akhtar said. Even Malegaon blast accused and BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur backed the suggestion to ban the burqa “in the interest of national security”.

Source: Indian Express May 02, 2019 14:25 UTC