Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi and Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju were on Wednesday engaged in a tiff on social media platform ‘X’ over Pre-Matric scholarship and other schemes for minority students welfare.

Responding to Owaisi’s criticism that the NDA government restricted scholarships to classes 9 and 10 even though dropouts among Muslims begin as early as class 5, Rijiju said pre-matric scholarship has been restricted only upto class IX and X, as Right To Education (RTE) Act makes it obligatory to provide free and compulsory elementary education for students of classes I to VIII.

The union minister also said the Maulana Azad National Fellowship scheme has been discontinued as it overlaps with similar schemes of other Ministries and Departments.

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