I believe this is our greatest achievement."ĪIMIM MLA suspended from Maha Assembly for refusal to chant sloganĪIMIM MLA Waris Pathan was suspended from Maharashtra Assembly for refusing to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' with legislators cutting across party lines pressing for action against him through a unanimous resolution. "We need to protect secularism because there cannot be democracy without it. Underlining that there cannot be democracy without secularism, Akhtar said protecting secularism is not about protecting one community or the other. He also said that these days "fringe" elements are rising and emphasised the need to protect secularism to save democracy and the Constitution.
At the same time, he condemned those right-wing extremists also who say Muslims should go to Pakistan. I don't care to know whether saying 'Bharat mata ki jai' is my duty or not, it is my right." He then chanted 'Bharat mata ki jai' a number of times. Retiring from the RS, Javed Akhtar joined the debate saying: “the Constitution even does not ask him to wear sherwani (dress) and topi (cap). Javed Akhtar gives emotional retirement speech They should go to some other country,’ Vijayvargiya told reporters. ‘I feel that those who don't want to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai has no right to stay in India. His tongue and my tongue would not be the same. He would say ammi zindabaad or meri walida zindabaad. When asked about Asaduddin Owaisi’s statement that he would never say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ even if a knife was put on his neck, Khursheed said, ‘He would say something else. ‘Nowhere in the Constitution it says that one should say: Bharat Mata ki Jai,’ he said. ‘I won't utter that (slogan) even if you put a knife to my throat,’ Owaisi said, amid loud applause by the crowd. What are you going to do, Bhagwat sahab,’ Owaisi said. The incident didn’t get too much attention until AIMIM leader Asaduiddin Owaisi waded into the controversy. On the occasion, the RSS chief presented ‘Matrashakti’ award to social activist Sindhutai Sapkal. Bhagwat, without making any direct reference to the JNU controversy, said this is necessary as ‘some forces’ are telling the youth not to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.īhagwat was speaking at RSS headquarters in Reshimbagh during an award giving function. It should be real, spontaneous and part of all-round development of the youth,’ he said. ‘Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant `Bharat Mata Ki Jai' (hail mother India).
Youth must be taught to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai: Mohan Bhagwat For the last month, there has been a controversy brewing over the slogan Bharat Mata Ki Jai ever since on March 3, Mohan Bhagwat said that the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing Mother India.