State Government has not paid attention this year over the preparation for the 69th Aalmi Tablighi Ijtema (World Islamic Congregation) to be held here from here at Ghasipura on the outskirts of Bhopal from Saturday November 26.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had always visited and conducted meetings ahead of the event with the officials but this year, he did not visit the venue or did not even send any minister or representative to review the preparations.
There are various problems coming in the way for the preparation of Ijtema especially the currency note crunch as well as the problem of the change is the major problem in the preparations.
The vendors suffering under this dilemma as the government has not installed any currency exchange counter at the venue.
All India Muslim Personal law Board (AIMPlB) Member Arif Masood has demanded that temporary bank counters should be arranged at the Ijtema venue for the jamaats.
Masood in his letter to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that three-day Ijtema would start from Saturday November 26, about ten lakh people from across the globe are expected to participate in it.
Jamaats are puzzled after the Union Government’s decision of scrapping the currency notes of `500 and `1000 as they have the defunct currency notes.
Masood demanded that temporary bank counters should be opened for the exchange of the defunct currency notes at the Ijtema venue in order to facilitate the jamaats.
Ijtema organizing committee members would also meet the State Bank of India (SBI) officials on Monday in order to discuss the issue of opening exchange counters at the Ijtema venue for exchanging the defunct banknotes.