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Humra Quraishi Why verbal and non-verbal attacks on the madrasas in the country? Mind you, not just by the semi-Sarkari men but also by the right-wing politicians, including chief ministers! Where are these critics when madrasas and the madrasa children get attacked by the Hindutva brigades? In recent years one incident after another of madrasa children targeted not just in the BJP-ruled States of the country, but also in the capital city, New Delhi. In 2018, eight-year-old child Mohammad Azeem, studying in a madrasa situated in South Delhi’s Begampur, was lynched by the local Hindutva goons. Shockingly, this was not the first time that a madrasa child was targeted in that very locality of South Delhi.

Around 2017, a group of madrasa children was brutally thrashed in a park, once again in the Begampur locality, by right-wing goons after forcing them to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’! And to compound the tragedy, there was no reaction from the political setups, ministers, or chief ministers, nor the various Commissions and Child-Right forums! And in the summer of 2019, on 11 July 2019, madrasa children were attacked by Bajrang Dal men, in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao...



They were attacked with cricket bats and stumps and then stones pelted on them. On July 16, 2019, national dailies carried another news report of yet another madrasa attacked in Uttar Pradesh’s Behta village in the Fatehpur district..

. I could go on, to list the very vulnerability of the madrasa children and the.

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