The Madhya Pradesh high court will one week from now hear an appeal by a Congress MLA from Bhopal testing the Surya namaskar program being coordinated on the event of Amrit Mahotsav of Independence from January 1 to February 7 in all administration run instructive organizations.
The court conceded the meeting to the following week in the wake of conceding the request recorded by Congress MLA, Arif Masood.
The request said that the University Grants Commission has given a course to the advanced education establishments and partnered schools to take an interest in a Surya Namskar program, which was disregarding apartments of Islam and the Constitution.
“Surya Namaskar is considered as Sun love. Venerating the sun is against Islam. The Constitution doesn’t permit us to show lessons of a specific religion in government instructive foundations or to sort out festivals in view of the convictions of a specific gathering,” the appeal said.
It said that as adoring the Sun as a god isn’t permitted in Islam, the public authority ought to pull out the request. “The notice is encroaching the right to freedom, opportunity of religion of a person as India is a mainstream country one ought not be permitted to infer such things on anybody without their unrestrained choice or assent,” the request said.
Refering to a request passed before by the MP high court in 2007, it was said that going to the Surya Namaskar ought to be intentional, not obligatory. Public Yogasana Sports Federation has been arranging Surya Namaskar program from January 1 to February 7 as a component of the Amrit Mahotsav occasion in 30,000 instruction establishments to incorporate 3 lakh understudies of three conditions of the country. The objective of guaranteeing 75 crore Surya Namaskars was set for this program. Under this, a melodic Surya Namaskar program was coordinated before the tricolor on the event of Republic Day,” said Ehtesham Hashmi, the candidate’s legal counselor said.
The applicant likewise tested the ruling against the state legislature of Madhya Pradesh, Patanjali Yogpeeth, Heartfulness Institute, NYSF National Yogasana Sport Federation, Geeta Parivar and Kreeda Bharati, Ministry of Ayush, Ministry of Education, Ministry of External Affairs and ICCR, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
