Newly-elected TMC MP and actor Nusrat Jahan whose stand on religion and inclusiveness is "in sync" with the ISKCON's spirit of "social harmony", has been invited as a special guest at the inauguration ceremony of the Kolkata ISKCON Rathayatra on Thursday.
Thanking the actor for accepting the invitation, an ISKCON official said, she was "really showing the road forward".
The 48th edition of the Rathayatra organised by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) since 1971, will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Jahan, who got married to a Kolkata-based businessman and was heavily trolled for wearing vermilion and sporting a 'mangalsutra' at her oath-taking ceremony, had said, she represents an "inclusive India... which is beyond the barriers of caste, creed and religion."
Refusing to toe the line of hardline Muslim clerics who had criticised her, the first-time MP from West Bengal's Basirhat had said, "... I still remain a Muslim... And none should comment on what I choose to wear... Faith is beyond attire."
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