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Newslaundry
National
Avdhesh Kumar

‘Why teach Urdu to children studying Sanskrit?’: On the ground in Bareilly over Iqbal poem row

Two weeks after he filed a police complaint against a school for trying to “convert” students because they recited a poem by a Muslim poet, Sompal Rathore is pleased with how events unfolded.

“That poem is Islamic,” he told Newslaundry, “and Hindu children are singing it. So, we oppose it. It’s a way to attract Hindu children to Islam, to keep them away from Sanatan Dharma.”

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