Newly elected MP and actor Nusrat Jahan has said no one should comment on what she chooses to wear as “faith is beyond any attire”, refusing to toe the line of hardline Muslim clerics who criticised her for wearing vermilion and mangalsutra. The first-time MP from West Bengal’s Basirhat came to Parliament on June 25 wearing vermilion and sporting a mangalsutra, and said Vande Matram after taking oath. Ms. Jahan, 29, married businessman Nikhil Jain at a ceremony in Turkey earlier in June. The clerics claimed Ms. Jahan disrespected Islam by marrying into the Jain religion and called her attire “un-Islamic”. Islam has no place for Vande Matram, mangalsutra and vermilion and they are against the religion,” claimed Mufti Asad Kasami of Jamia Shaikh-ul Hind.

Source: The Hindu June 30, 2019 14:15 UTC