On 14th September, Javed Akhtar expressed shock over a reel in which Anand Ranganathan spoke about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad urging Muslims to be extremely hard against Kafirs but extremely sympathetic among Muslims. Akhtar said that the quoted statement was attributed to Maulana Azad.
Before the recent actions in West Bengal and Uttarakhand, Assam had already taken some of the country's most significant steps to change the madrassa education system.