Government has declared state-level award for best principal to Ramakrishna BG, the same person who closed the gates on hijab-clad students
The Karnataka government awarded the state-level prize for the best principal for the academic year 2023-24 to Ramakrishna BG, who had previously faced controversy for closing the gates on hijab-clad students two years ago.
In 2022, amidst the hijab issue in Karnataka, Ramakrishna, principal of Government Pre-University College in Kundapura in Udupi district, personally shut the gates when hijab-clad students tried to enter the college. A video of the incident, went viral on social media highlighting the tense situation in the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state.
