India: Stay off ‘convent’ schools, Hindu outfit urges parents (Prakash Kamat)

The National Hindu Movement (NHM), an umbrella organisation for Hindu rightwing groups, held demonstrations in Ponda in Central Goa on Sunday and urged the Hindu parents not to deprive their children of Hindu culture by admitting them in convent schools.

It further demanded that the word ‘secular’ should be deleted from the Constitution and called for an end to “appeasing the minorities.”

Hindu Janajagruti spokesperson Samiti Manoj Solanki said girls were not allowed to wear bangles, apply kumkum on the forehead, wear Indian dress, etc. in convent schools. [. . .]

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