NEW DELHI. The Darul Uloom fatwa department chairman Mufti Arshad Farooqui today claimed that displaying photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a madrassa was against sharia, reported ANI.

Reacting to a directive issued by Uttarakhand government, which makes it mandatory for all educational establishments in the country (including madrassas) to put up a picture of PM Modi in their premises, Mufti said, “There has never been any order to put photos of any PM ever, why now?”

“Govt must think before issuing orders that contradict Sharia. Such orders affect religious sentiments of Muslim,” Mufti claimed.

Last Friday, Madrassas of Uttarakhand had shot down the directive which was issued shortly after Independence Day last year.

Office bearers of madrassas in the state refused to comply with the directive "on religious grounds."

The state chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat then urged madrassas to give up reluctance and “come out of their traditional thinking and function like other educational institutions”.

