The Minister's statement is significant in light of the Supreme Court agreeing to set up a bench to hear a plea on the students being allowed to wear hijabs in state-run institutions across Karnataka.
Quashing the government order, the judge noted that the question before the top court is whether "we are making the life of a girl child any better by denying her education, merely because she wears a hijab!"
On Thursday, the petitioners submitted that the arguments of solicitor general Tushar Mehta regarding the involvement of the Popular Front of India in a "campaign" to wear hijab were made to cause prejudice.