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Nusrat Jahan To Be Special Guest At ISKCON Rath Yatra In Kolkata

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OB Bureau

Newly-elected Trinamool Congress MP and actor Nusrat Jahan has been invited as a special guest to the inauguration ceremony of the Kolkata ISKCON’s Rathayatra on Thursday, says a report in The Tribune.

Thanking Jahan for accepting the invitation, ISKCON spokesperson Radharaman Das said the actor represented an “all inclusive India” and was “really showing the road forward”.

Jahan, who got married to a Kolkata-based businessman and was heavily trolled for wearing vermilion and sporting a “mangalsutra” at her oath-taking ceremony, had said, she represents an “inclusive India… which is beyond the barriers of caste, creed and religion.”

A section of clerics had reportedly issued a ‘fatwa’ (diktat) against the Trinamool Congress lawmaker. Refusing to toe their line, the first-time MP from Bengal’s Basirhat had said, “… I still remain a Muslim… And none should comment on what I choose to wear… Faith is beyond attire.”

The 48th edition of the Rathayatra organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) since 1971, will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

 

 

OB Bureau

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