“Poisonous seeds of terrorism are being grown in Deoband to finish India. UP government should ban Darul Uloom Deoband. Case of sedition should be lodged against clerics who issued the fatwa and they should be jailed,” Jain said. “Poisonous seeds of terrorism are being grown in Deoband to finish India. UP government should ban Darul Uloom Deoband. Case of sedition should be lodged against clerics who issued the fatwa and they should be jailed,” Jain said.

A day after Darul Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa, saying that Muslims should refrain from saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, a senior VHP functionary asked Uttar Pradesh to ban the seminary. Terming it a “factory of terrorism”, VHP’s national joint general secretary Surendra Jain also demanded that a case of sedition be lodged against the clerics who issued the fatwa.

“Poisonous seeds of terrorism are being grown in Deoband to finish India. UP government should ban Darul Uloom Deoband. Case of sedition should be lodged against clerics who issued the fatwa and they should be jailed,” Jain said.

Read: Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband issues fatwa against chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

“They have said there was a sense of idol worship in saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’. I want to ask whether slogan of ‘Jai’, which is a wish for victory, is any kind of worship,” Jain said.

“The fatwa means they do not want victory of India, which is an argument raised by terrorists. The message is clear. ‘Wahhabi’ ideology has become the ground for terrorism across the world and Darul Uloom Deoband is feeding the same ideology,” he said, adding that the arguments raised by the seminary professing love for the country was only an effort to “cover up their intentions”.

Read: Jamat-e-Islami Hind supports Darul Uloom against chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

Jain claimed that the seminary had also opposed raising the slogan of ‘Vande Mataram’.

He said the “so-called secular mafia” should “open their eyes” and if they “really love the country, come forward and state that there was no space for ‘Wahhabi’ ideology in the country”.

He said VHP will be launching its programme of Ram Mahotsav across the country from April 8 and the issue of the fatwa will be raised to create awareness.

On cards, a Bharat Mata temple

A Bharat Maata temple will soon come up in Bhopal. In its budget for 2016-17, Bhopal Municipal Corporation on Saturday allocated Rs 2 crore for building the temple atop Manuabhan Tekri. Several councillors chanted ‘Bharat Maata Ki Jai’ during the general council meeting on Saturday.

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