Amid the raging controversy over the usage of loudspeakers at locations of non secular worship in Maharashtra, Section 144 has been imposed within the Aurangabad district until May 9. The prohibitory orders have been enforced forward of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray’s scheduled rally on May 1.
The order, issued by Aurangabad Police commissioner Nikhil Gupta after exercising powers beneath Section 37(1) and (3) of the Bombay Police Act, mentions that political events against the MNS’s plan of chanting Hanuman Chalisa have been additionally set to organise agitations. It cited the necessity to preserve peace within the wake of Maharashtra Day, Eid and different festivals being celebrated throughout this era.
On Wednesday, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil indicated that the state police will give a go-ahead to Thackeray’s rally. He, nevertheless, warned that the federal government will take all potential steps to make sure that the environment within the state will not be vitiated and social concord is maintained.
Raj Thackeray had introduced that he could be holding a rally on May 1 in Aurangabad to protest towards ‘azaan’ by way of loudspeakers at mosques. The MNS had sought elimination of loudspeakers from mosques by May 3.
“Why are loudspeakers in mosques played at such high volume? If this is not stopped, there will be speakers outside mosques playing Hanuman Chalisa at higher volume,” he had warned at a rally in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park final month.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”