Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, vowed to keep up his campaign against madrasas in the state, claiming that people prefer to attend schools and universities for their education.
“I have closed 600 madrasas and I intend to close all madrasas because we do not want madrasas. We want schools, colleges and universities,” Sarma said while addressing the BJP’s ‘Vijay Sankalp Yatra’ in election-bound Karnataka’s Belagavi
All state-run madrasas were to be turned into “regular schools” that provide “general education,” according to a contentious bill that Sarma had notably sponsored in Assam in 2020. There are 3,000 registered and unregistered madrasas in the state as of January 2023.
The senior BJP politician increased his rhetoric against illegal immigrants, saying that “people from Bangladesh come to Assam and present a threat to our civilization and culture”.
All state-run madrasas were to be turned into “regular schools” that provide “general education,” according to a contentious bill that Sarma had notably sponsored in Assam in 2020. There are 3,000 registered and unregistered madrasas in the state as of January 2023.
The senior BJP politician increased his rhetoric against illegal immigrants, saying that people from Bangladesh come to Assam and present a threat to our civilization and culture.
He also attacked the Left and the Congress for allegedly employing a “pro-Mughal” narrative to distort India’s past.
He called the opposing party the “new Mughals,” compared it to the Mughals, and claimed that they were attempting to weaken the nation. He criticised the party for bringing up the Babri Mandir controversy and for being against the building of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
