T he recent remarks by Kerala’s Education Minister in the St. Rita’s Public School hijab controversy have sparked more than just debate they have raised serious questions about the boundaries of political authority in matters firmly governed by law and constitutional principles. While the matter remains sub judice and courts have repeatedly clarified the framework for religious freedoms and institutional autonomy, the minister’s statements appear not only misleading but contradictory to established legal precedents, revealing an unsettling tendency of political interference in educational administration.

The controversy began when an eighth-grade student at St. Rita’s Public School, Palluruthy, was reportedly barred from attending classes for wearing a headscarf. Acting on a complaint,

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