Jharkhand BJP MLAs carry out Bhajan Kirtan to oppose Namaz room inside meeting

The BJP MLAs in Jharkhand Monday embraced a novel strategy to oppose the Jharkhand authorities’s controversial choice to permit a separate Namaz room within the state Assembly. Before the session started for the day, the BJP MLAs on Monday sat on the steps on the entrance of the Vidhan Sabha and protested in opposition to the choice by performing Bhajan Kirtan.
BJP Jharkhand took to its official Facebook web page to share a snippet of a video the place many BJP MLAs are seen performing Hari Kirtan and chanting Jai Shri Ram slogans as they dance to the tunes of conventional devices like Dholak and Manjeera.
The BJP leaders additionally maintain placards calling for the discriminatory order to be overturned and demanding prayer halls for different religions as effectively.
Terming the choice ‘unconstitutional’, BJP has additionally been demanding {that a} separate room must also be allotted to Hindus within the state Assembly to recite Hanuman Chalisa.
BJP chief Babu Lal Marandi stated that the temple of democracy ought to keep because the temple of democracy solely. He added that the allotment of a separate room on the meeting for Namaz is incorrect.
Former speaker and BJP chief CP Singh has additionally made comparable calls for and stated that a Hanuman Temple needs to be constructed within the Assembly premises.
Jharkhand Govt to allot a devoted room to supply Namaz in state meeting
The controversy erupted after the ruling JMM-Congress authorities issued a notification dated September 2 and signed by Jharkhand Legislative Assembly Deputy Secretary Naveen Kumar by order of the speaker stating {that a} room shall be allotted for providing namaz within the new meeting constructing. The order learn, ” “Allotment of room number TW 348 as the Namaz Hall for offering Namaz in the new Assembly Building”. The basis stone of the brand new Jharkhand Assembly was laid on June 12, 2015, after which it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019. This constructing is the primary paperless Assembly within the nation. 
Presently, the 81 member Jharkhand Legislative Assembly has 4 Muslim MLAs. Two MLAs are from the Congress party- Irfan Ansari and Alamgir Alam. The different two – Dr Sarfaraz Ahmad and Haji Hussain Ansari – belong to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
The choice of the Jharkhand Assembly Speaker to allot a devoted house for Muslims inside a secular establishment akin to Vidhan Sabha has evoked a robust response throughout the state.