Mangalore, Jan 1: As a latest development to the Madrasa text-book row, members of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Muallimeen Central Council (SKJMCC) held a press conference to inform that Karnataka State Wakf Advisory Board had decided that the respective Jamaats of individual madrasas could implement the madrasa syllabus based on majority decision.
Addressing a news conference here on Monday, SKJMCC General Secretary Dr Bahaudheen Muhammed Nadvi said that contrary to the interest of the locals people, a parallel organisation formed under Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar had been forcefully compelling the management of five madrasas in Dakshina Kannada district to follow their curriculum and textbooks from the past 6 years.
“Moreover, members of the organisation have demanded the resignation of D K District Wakf Advisory Committee President Usman Haji based on false allegations of flouting a government directive on the syllabus to be followed in madrasas,” he said.
Muhammed Haneef Haji from Mangalore said that the madrasas in question were Beetige madrasa in Puttur, Kanakamajalu in Sullia, Boliyar madrasa in Bantwal, Dattandandka madrasa, and Marnad madrasa in Moodbidri. Negotiations will be held in coming days in the presence of Karnataka Wakf Board officials to decide the madrasa syllabus based on the choices of respective Jamaats, he said
General Manager of Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidhyabhyasa Board (SKIMVB) Pinangod Aboobaker, Dakshina Kannada district Madrasa Management Committee (DKMCC) president I Moidin Haji, and several other members of the committee were present at the press conference.
The original Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama was a religious organisation formed in 1926 in Kerala. In 1989, an internal conflict divided the organisation into two, as scholars under Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar came out to form the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama (Kanthapuram).
The two organisations have been prescribing two different Kerala-based syllabi for Madrasas leading to frequent conflicts between them, forcing the government to issue a circular directing to maintain status quo and to continue the syllabus which was adopted prior to August 31, 2011.
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