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Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki now calls for namaz room in Uttar Pradesh Assembly

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The determination of the Jharkhand meeting to formally notify a specious room of the meeting as a prayer room for Muslims has emboldened an MLA of Samajwadi Party of Uttar Pradesh meeting Irfan Solanki to demand a separate room for namaz at Uttar Pradesh meeting constructing too.
The MLA wrote to Uttar Pradesh meeting Speaker Hridya Narayan Dixit and demanded to allot a prayer room for Muslim MLAs. He said that attending meeting classes and providing worship each are for him. He claimed that in Bihar a separate room was supplied for prayer. Besides, he added that comparable demand is being made in Maharashtra additionally. He stated that he’s an MLA from the previous 15 years and he had an issue in providing namaz in the course of the session of the meeting.
The SP MLA has made this demand forward of Uttar Pradesh meeting election scheduled the subsequent 12 months. This transfer comes days after the Jharkhand Assembly made a separate room for providing namaz.
The Jharkhand meeting Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato remains to be unapologetic that by issuing an official notification to allot a room (TW-348) on the new meeting constructing for namaz, he may need grossly violated the Indian Constitution. The structure prohibits any discrimination on the non secular line.
The Speaker is defending the indefensible stating that within the previous meeting constructing, too, there was a room meant for providing namaaz. Previously, the meeting was working on the Russian Hostel constructing of the HEC. But the Speaker has the powerful time to substantiate that previously an area on the meeting premise was formally allotted by means of the notification. Now the Speaker insists that one mustn’t go to the notification half.    
Speaking to the OpIndia Jharkhand meeting’s first Speaker, Inder Singh Namdhari who remained in chair from November 2000 until 2006 stated that no room was allotted to supply namaz until he was the Speaker. The completely unconstitutional act of the Jharkhand meeting is being backed by Hemant Soren led JMM-Congress-RJD authorities. Now this has snowballed right into a political and authorized controversy.
Ranchi resident Bhairav Singh on Tuesday filed a PIL on the Jharkhand High Court. Lawyer Rajiv Kumar showing on the behalf of Singh confirmed the event stating that they’ve cited provisions of Indian Constitution to put aside the order of the meeting Speaker.