Udupi, Karnataka: Groups of protesters threw stones at each other and students at a college put up a saffron flag on Tuesday in the escalating hijab versus saffron scarves protests at Karnataka colleges.
The protests, seen in and around Udupi till now, reached more towns including Shivamogga on Tuesday, where a group of boys wearing saffron scarves cheered, chanted “Jai Shri Ram” and danced as one of them climbed a flag staff and put up a saffron flag.
At a college in Mandya, a Muslim girl stood her ground as a large number of saffron scarf wearing boys heckled her and shouted slogans of “Jai Shri Ram”. She shouted back at them: “Allah hu Akbar!”
