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Cleric says no need for Modi to apologise

AFTER drawing flak from many sections over refusal to wear a skull cap, BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi finally has someone from the Muslim community who sided with him.

Muslim cleric Maulana Mehmood Madani said that Modi should not wear the cap for symbolic purposes as many politicians have been using the symbolic act to make a fool of Muslims.

“If you ask me to put a tilak, I won’t agree… not at all. And that doesn’t make me a bad person. I can be bad on accounts my action only. It has been our bad experience that symbolic acts have been done but real problems have not been solved. I don’t find not wearing skull cap as bad. I say that those who wear the cap fool Muslims. I want to tell them with folded hands not to make a fool of us. He should not wear the skull cap.

Nobody should. It is only a symbolic thing and I don’t want symbolism. I want work,” Madani said at Aaj Tak’s Seedhi Baat programme….read more

Courtesy: Mail Today Bureau

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