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SC: DO
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Bhopal, Aug 28:
(IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court in an interim order
Friday directed the state government not to force
educational institutions to conduct the yoga exercise
suraya namaskar, or salutation to the sun.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government had
two years ago made ’surya namaskar’ compulsory in
schools and colleges - which the minorities, Christians
and Muslims, protested as an attempt to impose Hindu
rituals on students of minority communities.
The Catholic Church went to the Madhya Pradesh High
Court bringing to its notice that the order of the state
government violates Section 25 to 30 of the Fundamental
Rights of the Constitution under which the minority
institutions are governed.
Advocate Rajesh Chand who appeared for the Catholic
Church on behalf of Fr. Anand Muttungal (church
spokesman) also pointed out that the order was against
the interim order of the high court in the same matter
in 2007.
He requested the court to give an interim order to stop
the state government from making surya namaskar
compulsory and initiate action against officials who
violate the court order.
“In the light of the above arguments, the Jabalpur bench
of the Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising of Chief
Justice A.K. Patnayik and Ajit Singh, Friday issued an
interim order to the government to abstain from exerting
any preasure on students and schools that do not take
part in the surya namaskar,” Rajesh Chand told IANS.
The court, he said, has also issued notices to the chief
secretary, principal secretary education, education
commissioner, district education officer Jhabua and
Rajgarh in this regard.
Archbishop Dr. Leo Cornelio, chairman of the Catholic
Bishops’ Council, has welcomed the order of the court.
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