Nusrat Jahan, the newly elected MP from West Bengal\u2019s Basirhat constituency \u2013 who won by the largest margin among the Trinamool Congress MPs \u2013 sent out a message of unity during Rathyatra on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Nusrat Jahan made headlines on her first visit to the Parliament where she posed along with fellow Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty in Western wear. Later, Nusrat left for Dubai, where she got married to Nikil Jain, a businessman. After the wedding, Nusrat wore sindoor<\/em> and mangalsutra<\/em> (the traditional \u201csigns\u201d associated with married Hindu women) as she took oath as MP, and this time she was criticised by a section of Muslims for wearing these signs.<\/p>\n On Friday, Nusrat Jahan was a special invitee along with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to the annual Rath Yatra in Kolkata\u2019s Minto Park organised by Iskcon.<\/p>\n \u201cDidi (Mamata Banerjee) comes for Eid. There is no politics in all this. It is just about faith. Let\u2019s keep politics and religion apart,\u201d Nusrat said at the event.<\/p>\n Banerjee pulled the chariot of Lord Jagannath, saying, \u201cJai Jagannath, Jai Hind, Jai Bangla\u201d. This was considered by some as using a religious occasion for promoting her party\u2019s slogan. However, the Trinamool Congress leadership said that \u201cJai Hind and Jai Bangla\u201d are not the party\u2019s exclusive slogans but had more to do with a citizen\u2019s love for the country and the state.<\/p>\n Nusrat has said earlier that she didn\u2019t bother about the criticism she had to face for what she chose to wear. \u201cI don\u2019t pay heed to baseless things,\u201d she said, adding that young India didn\u2019t care about these things and wanted secularism, inclusiveness and humanity.<\/p>\n News agency PTI quoted Radharaman Das, an Iskcon official saying that Nusrat Jahan represented an \u201cinclusive India\u201d, and that the rathyatra was an \u201cexample of social harmony\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s keep religion and politics apart, said Nusrat Jahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}