‘Govt. will face defeat if minority education Bill taken to court’

The Uttarakhand Congress connected Wednesday termed the State’s Minority Education Bill, 2025, arsenic “unconstitutional”, accusing the BJP authorities of “religious polarisation”. It said the Bill has thing to bash with improving the acquisition of number communities.

Suryakant Dhasmana, vice president (organisation) of the Uttarakhand Congress unit, said the Bill is “unconstitutional and a blatant usurpation of Articles 25 and 26” of the Constitution. He besides claimed that if challenged successful court, the authorities volition look decision connected this issue.

‘Madrasas the target’

Questioning the caller instrumentality requiring each acquisition institutions for number communities to affiliate with the Uttarakhand Board of School Education, Mr. Dhasmana said these institutions run lone aft obtaining a no-objection certificate from the Education Department. “Many schools successful the State tally by Sikh institutions and Christian missionaries are affiliated with the CBSE, ICSE oregon planetary boards… the government’s volition is not to uplift the acquisition of immoderate number community, but to prosecute spiritual polarisation by targeting madrasas tally solely by the Muslim community,” helium alleged.

Meanwhile, Mufti Shamoon Qasmi, Chairman of the Uttarakhand Madarsa Education Board, called the Bill “a precise bully step” by the authorities and said it volition supply prime acquisition to children from the Muslim community.

The Bill was passed successful August during the Assembly’s Monsoon Session held successful Gairsain and got Governor Lt. Gen. Gurmeet Singh (retd.)’s assent connected Monday. It volition go instrumentality aft a notification is issued.