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WB minorities` panel flays NCM`s stand on madrasah syllabi
Kolkata, May 29: The West Bengal Minorities Commission today termed its apex body`s proposed meeting to discuss the syllabi of madrasahs in the country as `an attempt by some fundamentalist forces to malign the madrasahs` and said it had no authority to make such a review.
Kolkata, May 29: The West Bengal Minorities Commission today termed its apex body's proposed meeting to discuss the syllabi of madrasahs in the country as 'an attempt by some fundamentalist forces to malign the madrasahs' and said it had no authority to make such a review.
The chairman of the state minorities commission Justice (retd) K M Yusuf in a letter to Tarlochan Singh, chairman of the National Commission for Minorities, said "to scrutinize or review the syllabi of the madrasahs does not fall within the purview of the National Commission for Minorities".
He said the commission does not possess the expertise to study and examine the syllabi of the madrasahs.
The commission has called a meeting of all the chairmen of madrasah boards on June three to study the syllabi of all classes in madrasahs and expressed concern over the problems faced by these institutions of the country, according to the letter, a copy of which was available to the press here.
Yusuf said if any complaint had not been received by the commission in this regard, "the meeting will give a wrong signal to the Muslim minority."
He alleged that the meeting might have been called ''at the behest of some fundamentalist leaders'' to malign the madrasahs 'with false and malicious allegations'. Yusuf said in his letter that the meeting would do 'more harm than good'.
The state commission chairman claimed that there had not been any complaint against a single madrasah in West Bengal.
Bureau Report