New Delhi: The Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an RSS affiliate, has appealed to Muslims to sacrifice bad habits and not goats during the festival of Bakrid. "Animal sacrifice during Bakrid is a bad practice like Triple Talaq. People should boycott those advocating sacrifice on the day. Giving kurbani during Bakrid is haram (not approved) in Islam," MRM Convenor (Awadh Prant-UP) Syed Hasan Kausar said.

“If anyone wants to give sacrifice, he should shun his bad habits and cut a (symbolic) goat cake on Bakrid” he said. The festival of Bakrid will be celebrated on September 2.

Kausar said that there were a number of superstitions among Muslims about animal sacrifice and added that those who get better education would "understand Islam". Meanwhile, MRM co-convernor K AKhurshid Agha advocated a Ram temple in Ayodhya. "As per Quran, prayers cannot be offered at a disputed place, so how can the Babri mosque be constructed at the disputed site at Ayodhya," he said.

Earlier this month, the Manch had announced that it would launch a countrywide campaign to persuade Muslims against sacrificing cows on Bakrid with a special focus on Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar.

MRM leaders met Islamic scholars associated with the organisation in New Delhi at an event presided over by senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar where a resolution was passed against cow slaughter. Agha said that Muslims were confused about "how to follow the path of Allah" and said they should come up against animal sacrifice.