On May 18, 2023, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief minister of Assam reiterated his commitment to continuing his state’s war on unauthorised madrasas and declared that 300 more would be closed.
“There was a meeting between the BJP and the people who run these madrasas. There is a consensus that the three hundred more will be closed down. This is the result of the discussion between the Assam Police and the
Qaumi organisations.”
While addressing in Karnataka’s Belagavi Bhartiya Janta Party Vijay Sankalp Yatra, Sarma said, “I have closed 600 madrasas, and I intend to close all the madrasas because we do not want madrasas. We want schools, colleges, and universities.”
Sarma presented a contentious law in Assam in 2020 that mandated that all state-run madrasas be transformed into ordinary schools that provide general education.
After a teacher in the Morigaon district was detained for his claimed affiliation with terrorist organisations on August 4, 2022, a madrassa there was destroyed.
A madrassa in Assam’s Barpeta District was razed on August 29, 2022, as a result of Superintendent of Police Amitava Sinha’s allegations that it was constructed illegally on public property. Additionally, the authorities said that two terrorists from Bangladesh had ties to the AQIS and Ansarullah Bangla Team (Al- Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.)
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