Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has challenged the Sangh Parivar to renounce their slogan Bharat Mata Ki Jai because it was coined by a Muslim.
“It was Azimullah Khan, a Muslim, who first raised the slogan Bharat Mata Ki Jai. The Sangh Parivar followers are not aware of that. Will they be ready to renounce that slogan because it was made by a Muslim?” the Chief Minister said while addressing a rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) organised by the CPI(M) here on Monday.
Azimullah Khan, who was a strategist in the first war of Indian Independence, was credited to have first raised the call for motherland when he used the slogan “Madar-e-watan, Bharat ki Jai” in 1857.
