Confusion reigns galore in Yogi Adityanth cabinet regarding dress code for Madrasas . Minister of State proposes while Cabinet Minister disposes!
The Yogi Adityanath government has rejected a proposal by the Minister of State for Minority Welfare Mohsin Raza to introduce a dress code in madrasa after it kicked up a row and generated stiff opposition from the Muslim clerics and scholars.
Laxmi Narayan Chowdhary, the Cabinet Minister for Minority Welfare, Muslim Waqf and Haj, summarily rejected his MoS and colleague Mohsin Raza’s proposal. “The government has neither formed any new policy nor has any plans to introduce a dress code in madrasa,” said the Cabinet minister while reacting to his colleague announcement on Tuesday.
The Cabinet Minister said that “it could be his MoS Moshsin Raza’s personal views and not a policy matter of the Yogi Adiyanath’s government”. “My department has not drafted any such proposal to introduce dress code for madrasa students nor has any plan in the future to do. The controversy with regard to issue should end now,” said the Cabinet minister.
Earlier, Raza had announced on Tuesday in a function at the Haj Committee that the Yogi Adityanath government will introduce a dress code for madrasa to change the attire of its students and bring it at par with other educational institutions. He had also declared that the government will also try to meet up the expenses for the new uniform of madrasa students like it did for the students of the state government’s primary schools across the state.
Raza’s move to enforce the dress code was strongly opposed by madrasa management. They feel that government was unnecessarily interfering in issues pertaining to community members by taking decisions which are bound to generate controversies.
Muslim Cleric Mohammad Haroon, who runs madrasa Darul Uloom Firangi Mahal, said that it was the prerogative of the madrasa management committee and not the government to decide the dress code for its students. “It’s an attempt to deny our basic rights of what to wear. If they want to attire in traditional kurta-pyjama, what’s harm in it,” fumed Sufiyan Nizami.
The Samajwadi Party General Secretary and former Cabinet minister alos jumped into the row over the dress code seeking to know from the Yogi Adityanath government punishment for violating its new diktat. "Will they bulldoze madarsas if they refused to follow the new dress code," quipped he.
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