Maulana Arshad Madani, veteran Muslim scholar and principal of Darul Uloom in Uttar Pradesh s Deoband, said that it was well within the rights of the government to undertake a survey of madrasas.
A Muslim organisation has objected to Uttar Pradesh government's move to surveying madarsas. Maulana Arshad Madani, president Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, clarified that his objection is to the sectarian mentality in the current situation, not to the .