Hyderabad, July 17 -- While the entire Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and right-wing ecosystem in Hyderabad has been gunning for the Muslim teacher who was fired from her job at a private school in Hyderabad after she assigned reading "kalma" and "Surah Fateha" as homework to a Hindu student, she has found support from the most unusual corner: Madhavi Latha

Latha, a BJP leader from Hyderabad, demanded that the teacher be given back her job and claimed that the school was washing its hands by shifting the blame to her.

"I say that the teacher should be reinstated. That poor Muslim teacher should get her job back so that she can provide for her children. Are her children not suffering? The Hindu girl studying in Class 2 is suffering, but ar...