But the turning point came on the night of November 22, when armed men in plain clothes posing as police allegedly raided Ali Mian's house in Rae Bareilly. If anyone opposes it, we will not treat him as a son of India." Tension mounted when activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students' wing of the BJP, burnt effigies of Ali Mian and Kalbe Sadiq. Sudarshan, RSS joint general secretary, going so far as to declare at a meeting in Meerut, "The Saraswati Vandana is a symbol of Indian culture. Shia scholar Maulana Kalbe Sadiq too declared it was nothing short of a conspiracy hatched by Kalyan to dub the community "anti-national". "Muslims are loyal to their country, their love for the motherland cannot be questioned, but as Muslims they can worship none other than Allah," he thundered. The controversy erupted when renowned Islamic scholar Hazrat Maulana Abul Hassan Ali Nadvi, known as Ali Mian, who also heads the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, urged the Government to reconsider its decision.
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