Vande Mataram: JU downplays, SP advises BJP not to politicise the issue

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New Delhi: Even as Jamiatul Ulema downplays the issue after its resolution against singing of the controversial Vande Mataram sparks a row, Samajwadi Party (SP) advised Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) not to politicise the issue.

BJP should not politicise the issue of Vande Matram as it would widen the rift between two communities, said party General Secretary Amar Singh while speaking to reporters in the National Capital yesterday.

"Muslims are not against the national song as such. But there are some religious compulsions because of which they hesitate in singing it", Amar Singh said while answering a question on the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind resolution on the song passed at its national conference at Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur.

The SP leader said if the issue was politicised, it would not do good to anyone.

He also defended Home Minister P Chidambaram against the BJP attack on him for attending the Jamiat conference saying Chidambaram could not be blamed for attending it.

BJP had taken strong exception to the presence of Home Minister P Chidambaram at the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind convention that passed the resolution against singing of Vande Mataram saying some of the verses of the song are against the tenets of Islam.

Meanwhile, Jamiatul Ulema General Secretary Mahmood Madani yesterday downplayed the entire issue saying, "We never wanted to make a big issue on Vande Mataram. Our mission is to build bridges to diffuse communal passions."

"We intentionally did not pass the resolution on Vande Mataram in front of the public gathering because we did not want to make it a big issue," he added.

Making a veiled attack on right wing organisations, Madani said, "The fatwa (legal pronouncement in Islam) has been there for long, we have just passed a resolution since many small organisations were trying to raise the issue asking revocation of the fatwa.

"Since we were organising a conference in Deoband, therefore it became necessary for us to clear our point of view by bringing in the resolution," he added.

On the invitation to Union Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram to attend the conference, Madni said other leaders were also invited.

"We did not want just the Home Minister to come, it has been the tradition of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, to invite leaders of all political parties. We invited Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and we invited Congress chief, but they did not come. We even invited Manmohan Singh," Madni said.

Home Minister P Chidambaram has already clarified that he was not present in the convention when the resolution was passed.

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