UP News: Two Muslim girls were not allowed entry during the exhibition at Ismail National Women’s Degree College located at Budhana Gate in Meerut. Actually, girls named Munira and Ayesha had come to the college to set up a jewelery stall. She had come to participate in the exhibition wearing a burqa. At the time of entry into the college, the female employee posted at the gate stopped both of them from entering and said that due to security reasons, they cannot be allowed to enter wearing burqa.
The girls did not remove the burqa and there was a long debate with the college administration, but entry was not granted. In the end both the girls decided to return with their belongings. The college administration says that both the girls were not college students, but were outsiders, hence they were not allowed entry due to security reasons.
Watch video here
Ayesha said that we had come to set up a jewelery stall in the college exhibition. For this we had registered our names. When we came here, we were told that we can enter in normal clothes and not in burqa. Due to this we refused to remove the burqa.
Regarding this entire matter, Chief Proctor of the college, Deepti Kaushik, said that both were outsiders and due to security reasons, they were stopped from going inside. This is an internal rule of the college, which everyone has to follow. Both were outsiders, they are not college students. For security purposes, we have made a changing room here, where the burqa can be changed. We do not want to identify who belongs to which religion. All students are equal.
Deepti Kaushik said that if both the girls wanted, they could have participated in the exhibition by changing their burqas in the changing room to ensure safety and identity. According to the college administration, this rule applies to every external visitor, so that there is no security or identity related problem in the campus.
—- End —-
