mumbai the uttar pradesh government wants to bring madrassas into the mainstream education system minister of state for minority affairs mohsin raza said on mondaythe uttar pradesh minister also favoured introducing a new dress code for students at madrassas islamic schools across the country and added that he will take up the issue with the centrehowever raza did not elaborate on what should be the new dress code in these institutes where students currently wear white kurtapyjamahe rued that no leader from his community has till date thought about standardising the madrassa systemour government in uttar pradesh wants to bring madrassas in the mainstream education system and why only in up i think all these religious institutions across the country should be brought into mainstream he told ptiraza said he intends to discuss the issue with prime minister narendra modii would meet modiji in this regard and seek his advise on how we can have a formal education system in madrassas in the country regrettably so far no muslim leader has ever thought about standardisation and formalisation of the madrassa education system he saidlast month raza had said that the uttar pradesh government might soon propose a new dress code for madrassa studentshowever cabinet minister for minority welfare muslim waqf and haj laxmi narayan chaudhary had contradicted raza saying that the government has not formed any new policy in this regardraza was in the city to take part in the kajari festival organised by an ngo run by mumbai bjp leader amarjeet mishrathe minister said the yogi adityanath government is sincerely implementing the vision of sabka saath sabka vikas support of all development of all and has made never before provisions to uplift minorities in the countrys most populous statearound rs 4000 crore was allocated for minority welfare in this years budget this kind of allocation has not been done before besides we have restarted disbursing education loans to minority students a practice shunned by previous governmentswe plan to modernise madrassas and have introduced the ncert curriculum for them we want to see a computer in one hand and the koran in the other hand of madrassa students as envisioned by our prime minister he saidraza a member of the legislative council said under modis leadership the country has embarked on the path of progressto a query he sought to downplay talks about a likely alliance between the samajwadi party and the bahujan samaj party in uttar pradesh for the next lok sabha pollssuch an alliance will have no impact on the bjps electoral prospects the minister saidall opposition parties are zero but as you know addition of only zeroes will never add up to a countable number modijis model of governance was discussed even in pakistan this proved modiji is a world leader raza saidhe rejected the oppositions claim of saffronisation of institutions in the state under the bjp ruleeven the sun begins the day with saffron colour and ends with the same colour this energising colour should not