No resolution against Vande Mataram passed before me: Chid

New Delhi, Nov 4 (PTI) Union Home Minister P Chidambaram
on Wednesday contended that he was not present when the Jamiat
Ulama-e-Hind adopted a resolution at its 30th general session
in Deoband asking Muslims not to recite 'Vande Mataram'.
"Home Minister P Chidambaram was at the JUH conference at
Deoband on November 3 between 10 am and 12 noon. No resolution
was passed during that period. When he spoke, he was not aware
of any resolution relating to Vande Mataram or women's
reservation and television," a statement issued by his aide
said.
Besides, the Home Minister was reading from a prepared
text and there was no occasion to depart from that text, the
statement said reacting to a statement of Bharatiya Janata
Party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
Through its resolution, Jamiat has asked members of the
community not to recite 'Vande Mataram' on the grounds that
some verses of the national song are against the tenets of
Islam.
The Jamiat's opposition to the recitation of the song
came when it supported seminary Darul Uloom's 'fatwa' (edict)
which opposes any prayer involving the song.
Naqvi had on Tuesday said the presence of Chidambaram at
the programme "gave legitimacy to the resolution...it is a
matter of concern." PTI ACB
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