Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday lent her support to Muslim girls participating in the Karnataka hijab protest. "Whether it is a bikini, a ghoonghat, a pair of jeans or a hijab, it is a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear," she tweeted. Priyanka Gandhi added that the right to wear whatever a woman wanted was guaranteed by the Constitution of India. "This right is guaranteed by the Indian constitution. Stop harassing women," she said.

The Karnataka hijab row started on January 1 after the management of a government pre-university college in the coastal town of Udupi in Karnataka barred six Muslim girls from attending classes for wearing hijab as the dress was against prescribed norms of the college.