Uproar in India over Bihar chief minister pulling down Muslim woman’s hijab
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A video showing Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, India, removing a Muslim woman's hijab at a government event in Patna on Monday has sparked widespread outrage. The incident occurred while Kumar was handing the woman an appointment letter as a doctor of alternative medicine. The video, which went viral, shows Kumar pointing at the woman's hijab and asking her to remove it before pulling it down himself. Kumar, a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP, has been the Chief Minister of Bihar for most of the past two decades. The incident has drawn criticism from opposition parties like the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), who questioned Kumar's motives and mental state, linking his actions to the far-right RSS ideology. The BJP and its allies have a history of campaigning against the use of hijabs by Muslim women.
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