Madrassas boycott mid-day meal in MP because single ‘Thali’ goes to temple

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In Ujjain, Madrassas have decided to boycott the government sponsored Mid-day meal scheme for students. They decided to take the step because the ISKON is responsible to prepare food for the children. According to Ujjain Qazi Khaleeq-ur-Rahman, Iskcon is the Hindu religious organisation and it spread Krishna consciousness across the world.

Later, the madrassas also put forward the demand from the government to supply the raw materials for food, and funds directly to them. They would themselves prepare the mid-day meals for students of Madrassas.

The local Muslim clerics have given the logic behind their demand that the food prepared by Iskcon is first offered to Lord Jagannath as ‘bhog’. Then only they distribute the food among the students.

Ujjain Qazi Khaleeq-ur-Rahman said that the Minister of state for education Paras Jain tried to teach us that we should change the mentality. We can’t accept this as it hurts our religious sentiments.

He said:

We want to specify that the matter is far above mentality. It is our faith. How can our students eat a meal which has been served to a Hindu god?”

On the other hand, Iskcon has denied it offered the food prepared for students offered to Lord Jagannath.

Iskcon’s spokesman in Ujjain, Raghav Das said:

We prepare food for 22,000 students in town. We make 66,000 ‘chapatis’, 140 kg of vegetables and 45 kg of dal per day.

Then, with the permission of the Ujjain Municipal Corporation, We take just one ‘thali’ from the kitchen to the temple of Lord Jagannath. The rest of the food transported from our kitchens to the schools not from the temple.

This is really a strange kind of reaction came from the Madrassas questioning the religious purity of the food prepared by the organization who is said to be a Hindu organization. India is celebrating 60 years of Independence from British rule but the people’s mentality is the same as it was during British days it seems that had helped British to rule over India for so long.


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