Updated Jan 31, 2021 | 18:15 IST
The BJP will still field its candidates in such seats so that people who are not Miya Muslims get a candidate to vote for, added Sarma. Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma | Photo Credit: PTI
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I am saying this from experience that Miya Muslims do not give their vote to BJP: Himanta Biswa Sarma
Till the people follow religious fundamentalism, we don t need their votes: Sarma
Guwahati: Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will not get votes in the Assembly seats which are in the hands of Miya Muslims . The BJP will still field its candidates in such seats so that people who are not Miya Muslims get a candidate to vote for, he added.
He said the Quran sanctions triple talaq and it is the word of Allah but the Narendra Modi government destroyed it. He accused the BJP of demolishing the Babri Masjid as well.
Assam Assembly passes bill to abolish state-run Madrassas, convert them into schools ANI | Updated: Dec 30, 2020 19:13 IST
Dispur (Assam) [India], December 30 (ANI): A bill, seeking to abolish all state-run Madrassas and transform them into regular schools, has been passed by Assam Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
Taking to Twitter, Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed his happiness over the passage of the bill and said that all Madrassas being run under the government stand converted into regular educational institutes with effect on April 1, 2021. Glad that the Bill pertaining to repeal of Provincialisation of Madrassas has been passed, even as Assam Congress and AIUDF expectedly staged a walkout in Assembly. All Madrassas, being run under government, stand converted into regular educational institutes wef April 1, 2021, Sarma tweeted.
Assam Government tables Bill for repeal of provincialisation of madrassas ANI | Updated: Dec 28, 2020 17:12 IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], December 28 (ANI): Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday, the first day of the Assam Legislative Assembly session, tabled a Bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassas in the state. We have introduced a Bill whereby all Madrassas will be converted into institutes of general education and no Madrassa will be established by the government in the future. We re happy to introduce this Bill to bring truly secular curriculum in the education system, Sarma told reporters after the bill was tabled in the assembly.
Govt-run madrassas in Assam to shut soon; bill to be introduced in assembly today
By ANI| Posted by Minhaj Adnan | Published: 28th December 2020 2:15 pm IST
Guwahati: Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday stated that a Bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassa, aiming to end the practice of running Madrassa by the Assam government, will be introduced today in the state Assembly.
“I will introduce a Bill to repeal the provincialisation of Madrassa in the state Legislative Assembly,” said Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“Today I shall introduce a Bill to repeal provincialisation of Madrassa. Once the Bill is passed, the practice of running Madrassa by the Assam government will come to an end, a practice which was started by the Muslim League government in pre-Independence Assam,” Sarma tweeted.