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Jamiat resolution unacceptable, says Khurshid

New Delhi: The recent resolution of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind asking Muslims not to recite “Vande Mataram” is “unacceptable” and will be “counter-productive,” Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said.

He also doubted whether the resolution is the view of the entire Jamiat.

“It [the resolution] is unacceptable. It is counter-productive. It is not good for our society and our country. It is not good for Muslims,” Mr. Khurshid told Karan Thapar on the “Devil’s Advocate” programme on the CNN-IBN when asked to comment on the resolution passed by the Jamiat at its convention in Deoband on November 3.

The Jamaiat, the largest organisation of Sunni Muslims, in the resolution endorsed a “fatwa” issued by the Darul-Uloom of Deoband in 2006 that declared the recital of “Vande Mataram” as un-Islamic. — PTI

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