<P> AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi vehemently declined to say "Bharat mata ki jai", even if a knife is put on his throat . </P> <P> The controversy arose when Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat said, now the time has come to say Bharat mata ki jai . Many Muslim organizations issued fatwas that saying bharat mata ki jai is unislamic . The fatwa by Darul - Uloom Deoband, the leading Islamic seminary of the Indian subcontinent said, "After the' Vande Mataram' controversy, now people are being forced to chant' Bharat Mata ki jai' . Actually, some of the believers in Hindu faith consider India a goddess whom they worship . They treat the goddess' Bharat Mata' the patron god and caretaker of the country . This belief certainly goes against the very idea of' tauheed' which forms the core of belief in Islam . The followers of Islam cannot compromise with the idea of' tauheed' ." Also chanting the slogan amounted to "worshipping" the goddess "bharat mata". Though few argue that the slogan did not mean worshipping "bharat mata" and hence did not go against the idea of "tauheed" (the belief in oneness of God). They argue that there is a variety of interpretation of god and tauheed in Islam . The idea of tauheed (oneness of god) is vast enough to accommodate the idea of praising the motherland and showing love for her, and not take the literal translation of Vandana or saying "bharat mata ki jai" as the controversy is unnecessary and irrelevant . </P>

Who said bharat mata ki jai first time