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| BJP request to sing Vande Mataram in Parliament. Compound rejected | | | New Delhi, Aug 30: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has turned down the BJP's request to allow 200 Muslims from its minority cell to sing Vande Mataram in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in the Parliament compound.
"The permission is not forthcoming," BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
The party, which announced Vande Mataram as its key election issue in Uttar Pradesh, had last week spelled out plans to hold a rendition of the national song by 200 Muslims in the Parliament complex.
The party leadership also made a written request to the Speaker to allow it to hold the event.
"Now we also think since the permission is not forthcoming, we have dropped the plan. The singing of the national song by the Muslims will not be a segregated event and instead will be held as part of the party's nationwide programme on September 7," Prasad said today. |
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