New Delhi: Former Vice President Hamid Ansari about “the emergence of cultural nationalism in India” has raised a strong rebellion from several parties including BJP in power.
Participating in a virtual panel discussion organized by the American American Muslim Council, Ansari has said: “In the past few years, we have experienced the emergence of trends and practices that denied the established principles of nationalism and directing new and imaginary cultural practices and imaginary nationalism …
want to distinguish residents on the basis of their faith, give ventilation to intolerance, more streaming, and promote anxiety and insecurity.
“BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi strongly condemned the statement made by the former vice president.
“It is unfortunate that when the country celebrates the Republican Day, someone who once occupied an important constitutional position was on the platform working against India and did not leave efforts to slander the country,” Naqvi said.
“It would be better if instead of sharing knowledge about the fate of the minority in India, he would talk about the type of abuse faced by a minority in the country that sponsored IAmc,” he said referring to Pakistan without nominating him.
“For this reason the people in the country have stopped carrying people like him seriously,” he added.
BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain also reacted strongly with Ansari’s covert criticism to the center.
Hussain stressed that for Muslims in the country, “there is no better nation than India, there is no better leader than Narendra Modi and no friends who are better than Hindus”.
The BJP leader holds that Ansari should not agree to join an online event organized by the American Muslim Council “known as anti-Indian propaganda.” “Even as vice president, Ansari has stirred up the controversy where people in the country have not forgiven it,” he added without describing.
The Bahujan Party Samaj expressed disapproval with Hamid Ansari’s statement.
Party spokesman Sudhindra Bhadoria said people in India believed in ‘Sarvadharma Sambhav’.
“Some individuals or groups do not represent the entire country; Hamid Ansari must clarify what he wants to say by saying something like that approaching the crucial assembly election,” he said.
The BSP spokesman said that “for someone who has held an important constitutional post when the country’s vice president, Ansari also had to read the history of the nation and saw that the people here believe in the idea of ’Sarvadharma Sambhav’ thousands of years.” Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) General Secretary General Surendra Jain also hit Hamid Ansari said his statement was that there was an atmosphere of intolerance and insecurity for Muslims in this country very “liked” and “intelligence”.
“I want to ask him that there are Muslim majority countries where Muslims live in peace? Is Shia, Ahmadiya Muslim who lives in peace in Pakistan? What are the situations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq? Do they have Muslim community models able to live in peace ? “Asked the VHP leader.
(With input from the agency)
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