Nusrat Jahan | Photo credit: PTI
Key points
- Nusraj Jahan does it again, attends the Hindu Puja and rejects radical thoughts
- Jahan calls BJP poison and advises them to learn to love
- Married in a Hindu family, Nusrat calls the Love Jihad law against the principles of love.
Calcutta: Nusrat Jahan, Trinamool Congress MP Lok Sabha and a prominent celebrity, one who had previously rejected the radical mindset of fans and fundamentalists who had opposed her offering prayers in conjunction with Hindu rituals attacked BJP on Saturday and called to the ‘poison’ saffron party. Annoyed by the proposed ‘Love Jihad’ bill that some of the BJP-ruled states are considering introducing, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Assam, Jahan reminded BJP that ‘love is personal’.
“This is sad because love and jihad cannot go hand in hand. Love is personal. Who I love is personal and no one can comment on that. The only advice I have for BJP is that they must understand that love is personal. and they must learn to love, “Nusrat Jahan said on Saturday. She herself is married to a Hindu family and called it an unfortunate intrusion into someone’s private space.
Jahan opened a Jagatdhatri Puja Pandal in Calcutta on Saturday and offered uninhibited bows. Previously, this first MP from the Muslim-majority constituency Basirhat Lok Sabha was criticized by fundamentalists for wearing vermilion on her head and ‘mangalsutra’ within Parliament, for practicing the customs of a married Hindu woman. So the fundamentalists called it an insult to Islam and demanded an apology. However, Jahan never apologized and stood her ground as an independent secular Indian, as to how she had always defined him.
“When I go to a Mazar no one comes following me, no media catches that and no one has any problem. Because I am Nusrat, a Muslim, so it is normal. It is only when I am at a Hindu festival people find a problem. I am a secular person I am a Bengali Muslim, first Bengali. In Bengal, we practice secular love for everyone and there is nothing wrong. ” Said Nusrat Jahan.
During the inauguration of Puja, he even showed the politician in it, along with sharp diatribes against the BJP, he also asked people to be suspicious of all fundamental ideas and urged everyone to support his supreme party, Mamata Banerjee, to protect the state of the communal forces. .
Interestingly, in the midst of all the controversies, he has received the support of his party, even at the risk of antagonizing a section of the Muslim population that constitutes the crucial part of just over 28 percent of the vote, an important deciding factor that has stayed true to the TMC so far amid the steady rise of RSS and BJP in Bengal.
In the run-up to the 2021 assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress has ensured that the party stays within the Bengali regional identity narrative and secular principles to counter the BJP, both boxes that Nusrat had checked. referring to her identity as ‘Muslim Bengali’ several times. during the event. “I am the child of all the right controversies because I am not wrong,” Ms. Jahan told Times Now.
