New Delhi/Mumbai, November 05: The call by a top Muslim body to members of the community not to recite ‘Vande Mataram’ fuelled a political row today with the Shiv Sena saying those opposed to the national song should go to Pakistan.
The Congress said the issue of Vande Mataram is a sensitive one and urged political leaders not to rake up a controversy, a day after Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind in a resolution endorsed a decree by a prominent Islamic seminary at Deoband in Uttar Pradesh against the recital of “Vande Mataram”,
“This is a very sensitive issue. It is our national song. And there are also religious sentiments attached with people. Keeping in mind all these facts, the issue should not be made controversial,” party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad said.
–Agencies