KS Eshwarappa was talking on the controversy encompass the Azaan.
Bengaluru:
Hijab, halal meat, Muslim merchants and now the Azaan – Karnataka’s ruling BJP recognized the state’s newest affliction on Tuesday with senior get together chief and Panchayat Raj Minister KS Eshwarappa importing the controversy over the Islamic prayer name from neighbouring Maharashtra with categorical delivery.
“I’ve been listening to that Azaan by loudspeakers disturbs college students. The group has for lengthy adopted the custom of calling for prayers utilizing loudspeakers, and this is a matter even for their very own kids’s research,” Mr Eshwarappa instructed reporters in Karwar.
“That is my view on banning loudspeakers. This is not a contest between Muslims calling for prayers by loudspeakers and Hindus chanting Hanuman Chalisa. And due to the Azaan, it is a matter for college students, sufferers and the aged,” he stated.
His remark was met with opposition from Congress chief Priyank Kharge who stated, “Let all BJP and Bajrang Dal employees cease utilizing petrol and diesel because it’s imported from Islamic international locations. Present your actual Hindutva right here. There are Air pollution Management Board norms and Supreme Courtroom orders on loudspeakers, allow them to implement them. It talks about what to do with temples, mosques and church buildings.”
The controversy over the Azaan flared in Maharashtra this weekend, simply forward of the elections for India’s richest municipal physique – the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company or BMC – with the BJP and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) elevating the problem to focus on the ruling Shiv Sena.
MNS leaders in a number of components of Maharashtra have taken to enjoying the Hanuman Chalisa from loudspeakers after a call-to-arms by Raj Thackeray at a rally in Mumbai on the event of the Marathi New 12 months competition Gudi Padwa.
A BJP chief within the state even supplied to bankroll loudspeakers to play the Hanuman Chalisa in public locations.
BJP-ruled Karnataka, house to IT and startup hub Bengaluru, in the meantime, has been more and more within the information currently for rising right-wing non secular activism that the opposition says has focused Muslims for all the things from what they put on, eat and the place they commerce.
