Muslim cleric and general secretary of Jamiat Ulema Hind Maulana Mehmood Madani has said that Modi should not wear the skull cap which many politicians use to impress Muslims.

“If you ask me to put a tilak , I won’t agree. It has been our bad experience that symbolic acts have been done but real problems have not been solved. I don’t find not wearing skullcap as bad. I say that those who wear the cap fool Muslims. He (Modi) should not wear the skullcap. Nobody should. It is only a symbolic thing and I don’t want symbolism. I want work,” Madani said in an interview to private news channel.

“If people make him the PM even after Opposition then responsibility will be on him to treat everyone as equal. He would see everyone as equal and won’t destroy the country on the basis of religion and caste,” he said.

Appreciating Modi’s way of governance, he said, “If he talks about development and succeeds in implementing then he will be worthy of praise. It is good that he is appearing secular and not saying a single communal word but that is the strength of this country.”