Unlike SP leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq, TMC MP Nusrat Jahan chants Vande Mataram while taking oath
Kolkata, June 25 (IBNS): Newly elected Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan on Tuesday ended her oath-taking speech in the Parliament by saying Vande Mataram, unlike Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq who refused to chant it by stating that it was against 'Islam'.
She also chanted phrases like 'Jai Hindi' and 'Jai Bangla'.
Nusrat took the oath in Bengali.
Like her other party members, Jahan, dressed in saree, took oath in Bengali. Having acted in 16 films so far, she is one of the top contemporary actresses in the Bengali film industry, popularly known as Tollywood.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jahan, who was picked up by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a Lok Sabha candidate for the TMC, contested from West Bengal's Basirhat constituency and won by a margin of over three lakh votes.
After the Lok Sabha polls, Jahan went to Turkey to marry businessman Nikhil Jain. The two got married at a private ceremony in Bodrum away from media glares. It is because of her marriage ceremony, Jahan could not take oath as the MP in the Lok Sabha.
SP Leader refuses to say Vande Mataram:
Taking oath in the Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq recently refused to say Vande Mataram as the chant was against 'Islam'.
#WATCH: TMC's winning candidate from Basirhat (West Bengal), Nusrat Jahan takes oath as a member of Lok Sabha today. pic.twitter.com/zuM17qceOB
— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2019
After taking oath as the MP of the 17th Lok Sabha, Barq said: "As far as Vande Mataram is concerned, it is against Islam and so we cannot follow it."
Several parliamentarians started chanting "Vande Mataram" and "Jai Shree Ram" as the SP leader made the comment.
The Monsoon session of the Parliament started recently.
#WATCH: Slogans of Vande Mataram raised in Lok Sabha after Samajwadi Party's MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq says, "Jahan tak Vande Mataram ka taaluq hai, it is against Islam we cannot follow it" after concluding his oath. pic.twitter.com/8Sugg8u8ah
— ANI (@ANI) June 18, 2019
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