Shutdown all mosques and madarsas : Raghuraj Singh

A fresh controversy erupted in Uttar Pradesh after Minister of State Raghuraj Singh made a series of provocative statements in Aligarh, alleging without presenting any official data that individuals arrested in recent terror cases were connected to mosques or madarsas.

- UP State Bureau

He further stated that “educated Muslims become bigger terrorists,” an assertion that legal experts and community leaders called unverified, inflammatory, and potentially damaging to social harmony.

Responding to questions on the Delhi blast investigation, Singh claimed that minority institutions should be shut down. He referenced Osama bin Laden's education to generalise about an entire community, a comparison critics described as misleading and factually incorrect. Singh went on to accuse Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) of supporting institutions under investigation, after Al-Falah University received a sports tournament invitation. No official agency, however, has linked AMU to extremist activity.