Dharmpal Singh, UP Cabinet minister: ‘We will make madrasa students ideal citizens, engineers, doctors… not make them stone-pelters’ | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
“Only those people are opposing the survey who are themselves convent educated and never studied in madrasas... Children of only poor Muslim families study in madrasas. If they get good education, these people will lose the Muslim vote”
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HomePolitical PulseDharmpal Singh, UP Cabinet minister: 'We will make madrasa students ideal citizens, engineers, doctors... not make them stone-pelters'
Dharmpal Singh, UP Cabinet minister: ‘We will make madrasa students ideal citizens, engineers, doctors… not make them stone-pelters’
“Only those people are opposing the survey who are themselves convent educated and never studied in madrasas... Children of only poor Muslim families study in madrasas. If they get good education, these people will lose the Muslim vote”
Written by Lalmani Verma
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Lucknow | Updated: September 21, 2022 6:59:45 pm
Dharampal Singh, a five-term MLA from Aonla in Bareilly district. (Express photo)A five-term MLA from Aonla in Bareilly district, Dharmpal Singh, 64, has been a minister in the governments of Chief Minister Kalyan Singh (BJP) and Mayawati (when she headed a BSP-BJP government), and served as general secretary and vice-president in the BJP. In the previous Yogi Adityanath government, Singh was inducted as Irrigation Minister, but dropped after two years in a Cabinet reshuffle. Apart from Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj, Singh holds the portfolios of Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development, Political Pension and Civil Defence. He speaks to The Indian Express on the survey of madrasas being conducted by the UP government and the menace of stray cattle. Excerpts:
What is behind the state government’s decision to conduct a survey of madrasas?
The survey is being conducted so that students studying there get a better education. With degrees of maulvi or kamil in madrasas, no student can become IAS, IPS, doctor or engineer, until they study other subjects too. And while we are doing this survey now, in 1981-82, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had suggested a survey of madrasas. But nobody got it done.
In a recent incident in Lucknow, a maulvi tied up a madrasa student with a chain… At several places, you may have seen, namaz padhne ke baad pathhar maarne ka kaam madrase ke bachchey kar rahe hain. Allahabad (Prayagraj) mein ghatna hui, Kanpur mein hui, Moradabad mein hui, toh isme pathhar marne wale madrase ke bachchey they (after offering namaz, students at some madrasas have been coming out and pelting stones… This happened in Allahabad, Kanpur, Moradabad, where those pelting stones were madrasa students). We will make these madrasa students ideal citizens, engineers and doctors. We will not make them pathharbaaj (stone-pelters).
For that purpose, the survey is being done, so that good quality education can be provided to them. Secondly, the survey is being done to check the source of their funding, the basis of donations to them, whether these madrasas are registered or not, if the maulvis teaching are eligible or not, if students have adequate facilities. Committees comprising district minority welfare officers, Basic Shiksha Adhikari and SDMs have been formed to conduct the surveys in each district.
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