Request to sing Vande Mataram in Parliament complex rejected
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 spelt 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.
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 spelt 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.