Mumbai: AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has said he will not chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai,' comments that came against the backdrop of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's suggestion that the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India.
"I don't chant that slogan. What are you going to do, Bhagwat sahab," Owaisi said, at a public rally in Udgir tehsil of Latur district yesterday. "I won't utter that (slogan) even if you put a knife to my throat," Owaisi said, amid loud applause by the crowd.
"Nowhere in the Constitution it says that one should say: Bharat Mata ki Jai," he said.