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Karnataka has withdrawn its 2022 dress code order, now permitting students to wear religious symbols like hijabs, turbans, and sacred threads alongside uniforms. This new policy, effective from the next academic year for classes 1-12, aims to balance institutional discipline with individual freedoms. The BJP criticized the move as "vote-bank appeasement."

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has clarified that saffron shawls will not be allowed inside educational institutions, while explaining the state’s revised stance following the withdrawal of the February 2022 order that had restricted hijabs in classrooms. He said students may continue existing religious practices like hijab, turbans, sacred threads, Shiva dhara and rudraksha, but no new religious symbols can be introduced

Karnataka's Congress government has reversed a BJP-era ban on hijabs in classrooms, now permitting "limited traditional and faith-based symbols" with uniforms. This move, allowing items like headscarves and turbans if they don't disrupt order, has reignited political debate. While the government emphasizes education over religious identity, the BJP criticizes it as appeasement and institutionalizing religion in schools.

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Karnataka has withdrawn the previous BJP government's order banning hijabs in educational institutions, now permitting limited traditional and faith-based symbols like hijabs, turbans, and sacred threads. The new guidelines aim to balance discipline with constitutional values of equality and inclusion, ensuring no student is denied access for wearing permitted symbols.