Kolkata | First-time MP Nusrat Jahan hit out at the critics who slammed her for wearing sindoor and saree during the oath-taking ceremony in Lok Sabha.
Taking to Twitter, she wrote that she represents an inclusive India.
“I represent an inclusive India which is beyond the barriers of caste, creed and religion,” Jahan said in a statement that she later shared on Twitter.
Paying heed or reacting to comments made by hardliners of any religion only breeds hatred and violence, and history bears testimony to that.. #NJforInclusiveIndia #Youthquake #secularIndia pic.twitter.com/mHmINQiYzj
— Nusrat (@nusratchirps) June 29, 2019
“I still remain a Muslim and none should comment on what I choose to wear. Faith is beyond attire and is more about believing and practising the invaluable doctrines of all religions,” Jahan said.
She also wrote she respects all religions.
A group of Muslim clerics had issued a ‘fatwa’ against the newly-married Member of Parliament, Criticising her “un-Islamic” post-marriage appearance at her oath-taking ceremony in Parliament on June 25.
The TMC MP had tied knots with beau Nikhil Jain on June 19.
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