While the party’s minority department has come out openly against the state-sponsored programme, the Congress party is clueless about what stand to take in the matter. Its spokesmen contradict each other with one set suggesting that there is nothing wrong with Surya Namaskar and the other equating it with saffronisation. The government’s latest announcement that participation is not compulsory has compounded their predicament. “Let the president come out with a statement,’’ said two of them. Haroon said he was not concerned with the state unit’s stand because he had taken permission from the party’s national minority cell.
