"The district administration did not give sufficient time to the 224 residential students of the madrasa, who were mostly minors, to vacate the premises. The students had to vacate in the middle of the night, and had no shelter as most of them came from far-off places," the Congress leaders said.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said these institutions were being used as a 'hub for terrorism'. Since Sarma became CM, 700 state-funded madrasas run by an education board have been shut down.