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Several governmental parties successful Jammu and Kashmir connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) condemned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar implicit removing the veil of a Muslim doc during an authoritative relation successful Bihar.
Former J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti said if it was clip for Mr. Kumar to measurement down. “Having personally known and admired Nitish ji, I was shocked to spot him propulsion down a young Muslim woman’s naqaab (veil),” Ms. Mufti said.
She said does 1 property it to aged property oregon the normalisation of humiliating Muslims publicly. “The information that radical astir him watched this horrific incidental unfold arsenic immoderate signifier of an amusement is adjacent much unsettling. Nitish Sahab possibly it’s clip you measurement down?” Ms. Mufti said.
Ms. Mufti’s girl Iltija Mufti besides joined the condemnation. “No 1 has the close to interfere with a woman’s dignity successful public. Mr. Kumar’s enactment reflected a deficiency of respect for idiosyncratic and spiritual choices. Power does not springiness anyone the authorization to humiliate oregon mock others,” Ms. Mufti said.
Ruling National Conference (NC) person and Minister Sakina Ittoo termed Mr. Kumar’s enactment of publically pulling astatine a Muslim woman’s naqab (face veil) arsenic “deeply disturbing and indefensible”.
“Such a nationalist insult violates a woman’s dignity, faith, and idiosyncratic autonomy. No law bureau grants licence to humiliate women oregon people spiritual identity. This behaviour is unacceptable and indispensable beryllium unequivocally condemned. An unconditional apology is owed,” Ms. Ittoo said.
Imran Ansari, wide caput of J&K Peoples Conference and besides president of the All J&K Shia Association, wrote a missive to the Bihar Chief Minister implicit the incident.
“The enactment was profoundly hurtful, unacceptable, and successful wide usurpation of the antiauthoritarian and law values of India. Such behaviour does not befit a idiosyncratic holding a precocious law bureau and sends a disturbing connection to number communities crossed the country,” Mr. Ansari’s missive read.
Mr. Ansari said Islam accords dignity and empowerment to women and the “hijab is simply a spiritual work rooted successful faith, modesty, and self-respect”. “The pistillate progressive was a doc a awesome of education, service, and empowerment and that subjecting her to nationalist humiliation lone deepens the gravity of the incident,” helium added. He sought an “unconditional nationalist apology” from Mr. Kumar.
Awami Ittehad Party spokesperson Inam Un Nabi specified an enactment “strips the bureau of Chief Minister of immoderate motivation credibility left.” “Mr. Kumar’s behaviour was not conscionable inappropriate, it was disgraceful, arrogant and shockingly shameless. He has humiliated a young doc and disgraced his ain chair,” Mr. Nabi said.
Zaira Wasim, a erstwhile Bollywood histrion from Kashmir, besides took an objection to Mr. Kumar’s action. “A woman’s dignity and modesty are not props to artifact with. Least of each connected a nationalist stage. As a Muslim woman, watching different woman’s niqab being pulled astatine truthful casually, accompanied by that nonchalant smile, was truthful infuriating. Power does not assistance support to interruption boundaries. Mr. Kumar owes that pistillate an unconditional apology,” Ms. Wasim said.
