Hyderabad, Nov. 3 -- A group of burqa-clad students from a women's college here was allegedly taken to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's padayatra on Monday, November 2, on the pretext of a protest over scholarships, prompting the college principal to apologise to parents.

The students of Shantiniketan Women's College in Erragadda were brought to the starting point of the march near Nizam College after members of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), told the college that a demonstration was being held to demand pending scholarships, the principal said.

A video doing the rounds on social media purportedly shows BJYM members organising the rally and asking the students to join in.

In an au...