BJP MP Nishikant Dubey raised in Lok Sabha on Friday the "very serious" issue of some Urdu-medium schools in Jharkhand observing weekly holiday on Fridays instead of Sundays, and demanded a probe into it by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Raising the issue during Zero Hour, the BJP MP from Jharkhand's Godda Lok Sabha constituency termed the change in weekly holiday a move towards "Islamisation" and demanded that the Union government withhold funds released to these schools under the Centre's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
"All of a sudden, at least 1,800 schools included the word Urdu in their names across Jharkhand.... Now a report of a committee set up by the Jharkhand government has come (which stated) that Sunday is not a weekly holiday in these schools," the BJP MP said.
