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Mumbai: In a major development, Maharashtra Home Department has decided to allow the use of loudspeakers at religious sites in the state only with due permission, reported news agency ANI. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil will meet today to discuss the law and order situation in the state and the issue of the use of loudspeakers in public places, it added. Patil will also hold a meeting with the DGP to instruct him to direct all police commissioners and officers on this.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police has also issued an alert for social media users warning them of posting or sharing any inflammatory content on WhatsApp or other platforms. ‘Social Media Lab’ has been activated to keep a vigil on the posts that could incite communal tensions in the state. Till now, 3000 such posts have been deleted, the Mumbai Police said in a statement on Monday.
In wake of the ongoing loudspeaker row in the state, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday said that the Muslims in the country should understand that “religion is not above law and country” while also asking them to take down loudspeakers from mosques.
“We don’t want riots in Maharashtra. No one has opposed the offering of prayers. We want the
loudspeakers that are put up in the mosques and are illegal in the entire country should be taken down. If you do it on loudspeaker, then we will also use loudspeakers for it. Muslims should understand that religion isn’t bigger than the law. After May 3, I will see what to do,” Thackeray said.
The MNS chief asked the Hindus to “wait till May 3” and play Hanuman Chalisa thereafter in front of the mosques that “don’t take down the loudspeakers”. “I only have to say to the Hindus across India to wait till May 3. And after that, play Hanuman Chalisa in front of all such mosques that don’t take down the loudspeakers,” he said.
(With ANI inputs)
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