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‘Yogi govt right in making national anthem mandatory at madarsas’

Patna: Senior BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain has asserted that there was “nothing objectionable” in the order of Yogi Adityanath administration making recitation of the national anthem compulsory at madrasas across Uttar Pradesh.

He is one of the most prominent Muslim faces of the party associated with Hindutva politics, also claimed that ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was “sung gladly and readily” at the seminary where he had studied.

“Was the national anthem not being sung at UP madarsas so far? If that is so, I am hugely surprised,” exclaimed Hussain when asked by journalists about the UP madarsa board order.

“I have studied at a madarsa myself. There, we used to recite the national anthem gladly and willingly. There can be nothing objectionable in showing reverence for the nation,” Hussain said.

This has been taken exception to by some lslamic scholars and clerics who claim the wordings of the poem, penned by Rabindra Nath Tagore, went against the grain of their religious tenets. (PTI)

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