The controversy of Azaan and Hanuman Chalisa on loudspeaker is gaining momentum. Now the SP has also jumped into this controversy. In UP's Aligarh, SP's woman leader Rubina Khanum threatened that no attempt should be made to tease Muslims.
“If Hanuman Chalisa is recited in front of mosques, then we will also recite Quran while sitting in front of temples,” she allegedly said. A case has been registered against her after a video went viral on social media.
In the video, SP metropolitan president Rubina can be seen saying, “Loudspeakers have been installed in mosques and temples for a long time. Let us do our religious activities in the holy month of Ramadan. The way it is being blocked is wrong.”
She warned that hundreds of women would protest if Hindus tried to remove loudspeakers from mosques targeting Muslims. She said that “anarchists say to take off the loudspeaker or else we will read Hanuman Chalisa.”
Rubina said that “if the work of removing loudspeakers from mosques is done, then hundreds of Muslim women will sit and read the Quran in front of the temples. We will do this work in a peaceful manner. Our behavior is not like yours. I want to tell you that follow your religion. Respect everyone's
faith.”
Rubina Khanum said, “You are creating obstacles in the holy month of Ramzan. We have always been doing the work of religion. Loudspeakers have always been installed in mosques. So follow your religion and let us follow our religion.”
On the other hand, Circle Officer Swetabh Pandey said: “A video of a woman is going viral on social media in which objectionable remarks have been made about a particular community on which the charge was filed. Legal action will be taken after collecting all the evidence.”
It is noteworthy that in Aligarh, Hindu organisations have announced to read Hanuman Chalisa by installing loudspeakers at 21 intersections.
Earlier in Varanasi also, the threat of recitation of Hanuman Chalisa was made by putting loudspeakers during Azaan.
The issue of Azaan on loudspeakers from mosques has heated up across the country. In Maharashtra, where Raj Thackeray has given an open warning, but in many states including UP, the issue of loudspeakers is gaining momentum.