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Mamata Orders Construction Of Dining Rooms In Every State School Having Over 70 Per Cent Muslim Students
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Imam Barkati. (PTI)
The Trinamool-led West Bengal government has through its Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education Department (MAMED) issued a directive to officials to find out lists of government schools which have more than 70 per cent Muslim students so the administration can construct dining rooms at said schools, reports India Today.
This action has sparked a fresh political row with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is calling this move a blatant act of Muslim appeasement in a state were political violence is at a all time high. Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said, "Why this discrimination between the students on the basis of religion? Is there some other malafide motive behind this segregation? Another conspiracy?"
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool party have long been accused of pandering to the Muslim minority of West Bengal to consolidate votes. After the party came to power in the state, it was criticised from several quarters for its decision to start paying salaries of Imams and Muezzins.
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