Samajwadi Party Lawmaker, Shafiqur Rahman Barq in New Delhi, India refused to chant “Vande Mataram” while taking oath in Parliament. Barq believed the chant to be “against Islam”, but stirred up some controversy by not saying it. After Barq took the oath, he stated “Jahan tak Vande Mataram ka taaluq hai, it is against Islam we cannot follow it (as far as Vande Mataram is concerned, it is against Islam, we cannot follow it.)" Some members of parliament demanded an apology from him, while others picked what they would say or not say during the oath. Barq created a push to revise the oath, and many members of parliament started to shift the language to what they believed is acceptable.