TIA CORRESPONDENT
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NEW DELHI: In an interesting development, Bharatiya Janata has started tutoring the government not only on secularism but Islam too.
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh has discoursed Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh about Islam that even Muslims do not know.
In the background of commonwealth games function, Rajnath Singh has written a letter to Prime Minister suggesting that religion and religious practices should be left as the private domain of the players. “We are a secular nation and state should not start religious practices in commonwealth games” noted Rajnath, adding that it would be a departure from the secular traditions of the commonwealth games.
The BJP problem start over the reports that azaan, qawwali soundtrack, and the celebration of Eid have been included in the background score at the opening and closing ceremonies of the CWG.
“I regard Eid as a holy festival of Muslim brethren but any thing related to celebration of Eid during games would not only be absurd, rather un-islamic because Eid does not fall during that period according to Islamic calendar”, Rajnath gave sermon to PM about Islam .
However, at the end of the letter he suggested: “the most befitting thing to represent the India’s ancient cultural heritage and diversity in the opening and closing ceremony will be the chanting of vedic mantras”.