New Delhi, Dec 6, 2025

Muslim clerics on Saturday came down heavily on Congress leader Hussain Dalwai for his remarks questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to gift a Bhagavad Gita in Russian language to President Vladimir Putin during his two-day visit to India.

The clerics said that attempting to create a controversy over the gesture was unjustified and reflected misplaced criticism.

Prime Minister Modi welcomed President Putin in New Delhi with a warm reception and presented him with the Russian edition of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Hindu scripture revered across the world. The gesture was widely viewed as an assertion of India’s soft-power heritage and as a symbol of deepening cultural, strategic, and economic ties with a longstanding ally.

Dalwai, however, criticised

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