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ShareAllahabad: The VHP today lashed out at the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind for adopting a resolution asking Muslims not to recite 'Vande Mataram', and demanded a public apology from Union home minister P Chidambaram for "keeping silent despite the anti-national pronouncement being made in his presence".
The saffron outfit termed as "anti-national" the resolution adopted during an Islamic seminary at Deoband in Uttar Pradesh yesterday. "This (the resolution) has once again exposed the anti-national character of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind," VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia told PTI from Varanasi.
The firebrand leader said the Union home minister P Chidambaram must apologise to people for his presence in the function where the resolution was passed.
"Chidambaram must tender a public apology for having let down the nation and particularly the Hindus," Togadia said. He alleged "Instead of intervening and objecting, the home minister simply sat there and kept exchanging pleasantries." The VHP also demand that all the people associated with the outfit be stripped of their Indian citizenship.
Togadia said if Centre fails to take action against the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, it would undertake demonstrations in the villages across the country "and ensure that no cleric of that organisation gets entry into a single hamlet".
Togadia, however, refrained from launching an attack on Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who was also an invitee and had reportedly declined to comment on the fatwa saying "this is not the right occasion to speak on the issue".
"Perhaps, Baba Ramdev was not aware of what was lying in store. He must have been taken aback by the brazen pronouncement of the anti-national statement," he said.
