Kochi Private School Declares Two-Day Holiday as Hijab Row with Parents Escalates.

KOCHI: (October 13) A private school in Palluruthy, run by a Christian management, was compelled to declare a two-day holiday on Monday following an escalation of a dispute with the parents of an eighth-standard student over her wearing a hijab (headscarf).

A school PTA official alleged that the student’s parents were backed by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), a pro-Islamist political organisation. He further alleged that the SDPI members misbehaved with the school authorities, who are mostly nuns.

(Input from PTI.)

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