New Delhi: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is rapidly becoming another poster boy of Hindutva.
In the latest of a string of moves under his chief ministership that political leaders say are furthering the Hindutva agenda, the state assembly on Wednesday approved the Uttarakhand Minority Educational Institutions Bill.
The new law, once it gets the Governor’s approval, will replace the Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Board Act, 2016, and extend minority status benefits to institutions run by the Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, and Parsi communities, in addition to Muslims. The government describes the new legislation as “more comprehensive”.
In a social media post, Dhami said, “Today (on Wednesday), the ‘Uttarakhand Minority Education Bill-2025’ was passed in the Assembly. Till now, the recognition of minority institutions was limited only to the Muslim community.”
The new bill is part of a pattern over the past two years. The Dhami government has already implemented the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which replaced religion-specific civil laws and has cracked down on religious conversion and encroachment, as well as so-called “land jihad” and “thook (spit) jihad”.
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