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title: "UP minister Sanjay Nishad calls for the removal of mosques near temples"
url: "https:\/\/theislamicinformation.com\/news\/sanjay-nishad-removal-of-mosques-near-temples\/"
type: "post"
updated: "2022-09-16"
description: "MEERUT: According to Sanjay Nishad, the president of the Nishad party in Uttar Pradesh, \"Mosques near temples must be removed voluntarily...\" Additionally, he stated that \"Madrasas teach fanaticism\u2026\u2026"
taxonomies: ["News","India","Islamophobia","Meerut"]
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# UP minister Sanjay Nishad calls for the removal of mosques near temples

Source: https://theislamicinformation.com/news/sanjay-nishad-removal-of-mosques-near-temples/
Updated: 2022-09-16

MEERUT: **According to Sanjay Nishad, the president of the Nishad party in Uttar Pradesh, "Mosques near temples must be removed voluntarily..."**

Additionally, he stated that "*Madrasas teach fanaticism… There are links between these institutions and terrorists*." The comment was made in response to the ongoing statewide survey of madrasas.

On Wednesday, the minister visited Baghpat and stated, "*The survey aims to modernize madrassas so that children can study modern subjects and become doctors, engineers, and IAS officers. Therefore, clerics should support the survey.*"

"*Leaders will educate their children in convents, while poor Muslims will be given only religious education*," the cabinet minister said later that day in Meerut, appealing to Muslims to join the government's "nation-building effort." Children from low-income families have the right to study science, Indian culture, and nationalism."

According to Nishad, the maulanas made the Muslims poor, and the opposition parties spread a religious frenzy in the country.