Published on web at: 2011-02-10 08:31:10 +05:30. Section: Inside India section.
The vice president of the organising committee of Islamia Inter College, Saharanpur, UP, Mrs Naz Siddiqui did not allow some of their students to perform dance during the Republic Day ceremony. In a bid to break the old noble Islamic tradition of this college, some students had prepared for dance events with the permission of some college teachers to perform it on stage with several other cultural programmes on the occasion of the Republic Day. However, when Mrs Siddiqui came to know about it, she interfered in the matter and strictly prohibited the dance programme. She said that Islam does not allow such nonsense in its cultural programmes.