'Chilling message': Cong slams Bihar guv for defending Nitish; hijab row intensifies

NEW DELHI: The Congress connected Sunday slammed Bihar politician Arif Mohammad Khan's connection implicit hijab enactment that erupted aft Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar removed naqab from a pistillate doctor's look successful an event. Party person Pawan Khera described the incidental arsenic “an effort to normalise a powerful, ageing person publically violating a young woman’s bodily autonomy.

”Congress person Khera took to X to criticise Bihar politician Arif Mohammad Khan’s remark describing the incidental arsenic a “father-daughter matter.” Khera wrote, "What is being passed disconnected arsenic a ‘father–daughter moment’ is, successful reality, an effort to normalise a powerful, ageing person publically violating a young woman’s bodily autonomy. It sends a chilling connection to our girls: that unwanted interaction is acceptable if the antheral is influential enough.

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Khera added, "There is thing much disturbing than this, particularly erstwhile we cognize that astir survivors of intersexual maltreatment are harmed not by strangers, but by radical they cognize and are expected to trust."The contention erupted earlier this week during an assignment missive organisation lawsuit astatine the main minister’s secretariat successful Patna. A video from the programme, wide shared connected societal media, showed Nitish Kumar questioning the naqab of Dr Nusrat Parveen arsenic she stepped guardant to person her assignment missive on with different Ayush doctors.Meanwhile, Parveen did not study for work connected her joining day connected Saturday, officials told quality bureau PTI, adding that they are not successful interaction with her oregon her family.