Children won’t be capable to suppose about becoming doctors and engineers as long as “madrassas” exist, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said. “I always suggest for non-existence of madrassas the place non secular inculcation is given priority over formal education(sic),” the 53-year-old chief wrote on Twitter.
He also shared a video the place he can be heard saying: “This phrase (madrassa) need to vanish. Till the time, this notion technique stays, a toddler cannot come to be a physician or an engineer. If a toddler is told about the outcome, he or she won’t be interested in going there. Children are admitted to a madrassa in violation of human rights.”
“Nobody is announcing don’t educate the Quran (Islamic holy book). But more than that, a scholar be taught science, math, biology, botany and zoology,” Himanta Biswa Sarma stated at the event. “Give religious teachings for 2-3 hours. But in schools, a scholar must be taught in a manner that he can grow to be an engineer or a doctor.”
Further, in an apparent response to a comment at the event he was once addressing, the chief minister added: “You are saying that Muslims have merit because they examine the Quran. All the Muslim brothers had been Hindu once,” he said to an applauding crowd. “All human beings in India were Hindus. If a Muslim infant is meritorious, I will provide credit to his Hindu past.”
Himanta Biswa Sarma has been a vocal critic of madrassas – a religious school- and had said back in 2020 that state-run madrassas in Assam will either be transformed into ordinary faculties or they will be shut down.
In the same year, the nation authorities decided to dissolve all government-run madrassas in the northeastern state, and convert them into widespread instructional institutions.
In January 2021, the meeting exceeded the Assam Repealing Act, 2020, repealing the Madrassa Education Provincialisation Act, 1955, and Assam Madrassa Education Act, 2018.
The Gauhati High Court on February 4 this year upheld the Assam Repealing Act, 2020 and the subsequent orders and conversation of the nation government.
