New Delhi, India -Every morning, Muhammad*, 32, watches his 12-year-old daughter, Fatima*, she wakes up with the same enthusiasm-while she is wearing her uniform, her hair wandered and moves to the government school in New Delhi Khajuri, Khas area in the northeast, where they live with about 40 Others Rohingya Families in narrow rented rooms.

Fatima is among a handful of Rohingya children in Khajuri Khas with access to official education in a government school. Many other children like her, including her younger brother Ahmed*, have been rejected by admission to school for years.

With the start of the new academic year next month, Fatima is afraid that she might suffer from the same fate.

On Christmas Day, when tens of thousands of Delhi students look forward to a winter holiday, the national capital region Prime Minister AtchiAnd that passes in its first name, published on X: “Today, the Ministry of Education in the Delhi government issued a strict matter not to give any Rohingya acceptance in government schools in Delhi.”

Atchi, a former Rhodes researcher who studied in Oxford, is a leader AM Adami Party (Ordinary Man Party or AAP), a relatively new political force in India condemning its establishment in 2012 for the “pro -poor” movement and fighting corruption.

AAP, which was governing the province of the national capital in Delhi for more than a decade, is seeking to return to power Assembly elections To be held on Wednesday. The results will be announced on Saturday.

But this year, AAP faces a dangerous challenge from the right-wing BHARATIYA Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi (BJP), which controls 20 of 36 states in India and the provinces controlled by the Federal Union (called the Union’s lands)-either directly or through coalition partners– But he was out of power in the national capital for more than 25 years.

“The parties that try to get rid of each other”

On December 11, the novice ruler in Delhi, the Pharaoatia Jatata Party, ordered a special campaign to get to know “all illegal immigrants from Bangladesh” who may “involved in criminal activities” in the city.

Bangladesh, India, is hosting in the east, more than a million Rohingya, mainly Islamic ethnic groupMost of them escaped from what the United Nations described as a “case of an ethnic cleansing book” by the Myanmar Army in 2017. It was the largest exit from the society that was fleeing the state in the state in Myanmar Bodhi for several decades.

Nearly 40,000 Rohingya, like Muhammad, came to India in search of security and livelihoods, and settled in several parts of the country. New Delhi is home to about 1,100 of them, according to the estimate of 2019 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), most of them are limited to Muslim neighborhoods mostly in the city.

The Bharatia Jatata Party and other right -wing groups, whose policies depend on an anti -Muslims platform, were Attacking For years, they were accused of “terrorist” ties and demanding arrests and deportation from the country. Many were placed in detention centers in the capital and other parts of the country.

During a press conference on Monday, a spokesman for the Bharatiya Party, Jatata Sambit Patra, accused the AAP government of causing “demographic manipulation” to influence the electoral process in the national capital. The Hindu majority party has repeatedly accused AAP of adding “illegal Bangladeshin” to the lists of voters in order to expand its voting base.

In his speech to the election march last week, Federal Interior Minister Amit Shah promised that if the Pharaia Jaraata party reached power, “Delhi will free Delhi from the illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingya within two years.” Shah – and many in his party – in the past referred to the Bangladeshin immigrants “Termites” And “infiltrators”.

The Bharatia Jatata Party should not be outperformed in the race in Delhi, and the current AAP government raised the stadium against the Rohingya, in turn, accusing the Bharatia Gata Party from controlling the bad borders that facilitate its entry into the country.

On December 15, four days after the Lieutenant Ruler in Delhi ordered a car against Bangladeshian immigrants, Ati, the Pharaoatia party, accused the Rohingya “appeals”. She referred to a publication on the year 2022 by Federal Minister Hardip Singh Buri about the transfer of Rohingya refugees in government -owned apartments. Moody government I retreated quickly On the case and denied issuing any such guidance.

A few days later, ATISHI prevented all Rohingya children from accepting admission to Delhi Public Schools.

“Now this [election] “The campaign has reached the lowest level as both parties try to overcome each other in attacking the Rohingya,” said Anjasuman Chaudhry, a doctorate researcher at the National University of Singapore, working on the island.

Chaudhry said it’s the first time that a government systematically denying education for children.

Earlier, there was discrimination, but humanitarian officials in some schools would apply their minds and offer children. This range has ended since this demand came from the summit.

He said: “Now the Bharatiya Jaraata Party will not mind doubling and proving its anti -dutinga accreditation papers if it besieged,” adding that the trend can have “particularly devastating consequences” and an indirect effect, especially in the cases governed by the Bharatia Gata Party.

“There were many occasions when AAP surpassed the Bharatia Gatana party in targeting the Rohingya,” said Abufanand, a professor of Indian at the University of Delhi, said the island of the island.

He said AAP “is not different from the Pharaia Jatata party when it comes to advanced positions and anti -refugee discourse.”

“AAP has presented itself as a strong national alternative party and fighting corruption. Its current anti -year -old speech is in line with what the party has long.

“Our struggle continues for safety”

Several Rohingya has been discovered in electoral fire between the two political parties, saying they cannot return to Myanmar. “Two weeks ago, two of my cousins ​​were killed in Burma by the army,” Muhammad said to eliminate the island, using the previous name of Myanmar.

He added, however, it became difficult for society to live in Delhi.

Located in the southeastern corner of the city. Rohingya camp.

For eight months, the camp residents live without electricity. There are no toilets, and drinking water is provided through carriers twice a week. Most families here depend on charity, as some of their children attended a living school.

But in the wake of another campaign for the anti -Hongzia elections, they are not sure that their children are taught in the future.

“The problem is not only the elections. This is [targeting of Rohingya] It was happening for many years in India. We did not come here for politics, we came to save our lives. Unfortunately, it seems that we cannot find peace even here. For years, we were criminalized in the name of politics, and our struggle for safety continues without end. “

Fatima Mohamed’s father says that the denial of the teaching of the Rohingya children is not a new phenomenon in the city. He says unlike Fatima, his 10 -year -old son, Fayzan, was unable to join school.

“In this era, I do not want him to feel different,” Muhammad told Al -Jazeera, adding that he has approached at least four government schools in the past five years of Fezan. But they all refused.

“Very shameful”

Muhammad says that the situation worsened in late 2019 when the Modi government approved a controversial Citizenship Law He pushed his party for National Register of Citizens Both are seen as hostile movements for Muslims that sparked protests across the country and fatal riots in New Delhi in early 2020.

“After 2012, most Rohingya children were not granted admission to schools,” said Muhammad. You cannot own. Earlier, children, like Fatima, got admission to the use of ID cards issued by the European Diseases Commission.

Muhammad said: “I have met and begged with local authorities at least 25 times,” said Muhammad. They ask Aadhaar [India’s biometric ID] Cards. We do not have them and we cannot get one because that will be illegal. “

In October last year, Social Juster, a non -governmental organization based in New Delhi, a petition before the Delhi Supreme Court, asked me about the reason for depriving the children of Rohingya of education when the same rights were available to refugees from other countries. The petition was rejected.

Non -governmental organizations approached the Supreme Court, which held a hearing last week, as they asked the petitions to know whether the Rohingya lived in temporary camps or ordinary neighborhoods. The Supreme Court will hear after that later this month.

“Even in Delhi, where education was previously accessible, this exclusion is now.” Ali Joe Johar, activist in New Delhi in New Delhi, said, “It is very shameful for educated individuals to be proud of high education to prevent these children from schools.”

“Now, I realize the importance of education.” Their sister, a smile, is The first graduate of Rohingya From India, a master’s degree in politics is now following Wilfred Lorieer University in Canada as part of a program for the United Nations Commission for the UN Commission.

“Earlier, my family and I were opposed to teaching them, but our brother [Ali] I insist on that and support it all the time. Today, it made us proud and support us as well. “

Muhammad says this is why he wants to learn his children.

It is the only way to advance. I cannot read and write. But I feel proud when my daughter reads phone messages for me and responds in English. “

Since Atchi, Fatima has been pleading with her father to enter her in a private school. Muhammad, the daily wage factor also depends on the help of charities, cannot afford exorbitant fees in private schools.

But he hopes the Supreme Court will reach his rescue. “Indian law treats people fairly,” he says.

When asked about the profession that Fatima wants to follow in the future, he said: “She wants to become a teacher … you will know that all children are children – equal.”

*The names have been changed to protect their identities