Kerala Minister for Education PK Abdu Rabb has stated that he doesn't agree with boys and girls sitting together in classes. He made this statement on Tuesday.

There has been a controversy in the state over the recent expulsion of a male student from Farook College in Kozhikode after he sat with girls. The Education Minister stated that either in his personal opinion or as a minister, he didn’t agree with the concept of boys and girls sitting together in class, Malayala Manorama reported.

Dinu K, a male student, was expelled from Farook College, but the Kerala High Court had stayed the order. Despite this, many in the state have been averse to the idea of boys and girls sitting together on campus. A teacher from another college was asked to leave for posted on his Facebook page that he didn't agree with this gender discrimination.

As reported earlier, a Malayalam professor at Farook College reprimanded five boys and four girls for sitting together on a bench. They were told to return to college only with their guardians.

A first year BA Sociology student, Dinu K, reportedly told media that the professor had told them boys and girls couldn’t sit together as it was against the rules of the college. When one of the female students told the professor that this was gender discrimination, the professor allegedly scolded her and asked students unwilling to follow rules to leave the classroom. The nine students reportedly had to leave the classroom. Dinu who spoke out about the gender discrimination and refused to give an apology letter, was expelled.