HARIDWAR: Amid the continued controversy over UP and Uttarakhand govt directives over eateries and stalls alongside the kanwar route, giant white screens have been put up in entrance of some mosques and mazars in Haridwar “in a bid to maintain spiritual locations of the minority group away from public view”.
The top of a mosque known as the measure “unprecedented”. A number of kanwariyas mentioned this was “pointless”.Many Hindu residents of Haridwar additionally questioned the transfer, with one in all them dubbing it “condemnable”.
Nevertheless, senior Uttarakhand cupboard minister Satpal Maharaj justified it, saying, “This has been carried out in order that there isn’t any pointless pleasure or provocation from any facet and the yatra runs easily.” Acknowledging that “this has been carried out for the primary time”, he added: “Govt will take a look at the suggestions over the transfer.”
Haridwar DM Dheeraj Singh Garbyal informed TOI that the district administration wasn’t chargeable for the step.
On Friday afternoon, as information of this unfold by way of the city and past, just a few particular law enforcement officials (SPO) and volunteers have been seen rapidly eradicating the screens. Danish, an SPO, mentioned, “I’m doing it on the behest of Jwalapur railway police submit”. He, nonetheless, refused to expose who had ordered the mosques and mazars to be screened off.
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Locals in Muslim-majority Jwalapur the screens got here up on July 22 at Bhoore Shah mazar close to Uncha Pul and a mosque at Islamnagar. The caretaker of the mazar and Anwar Ali, head of the mosque, mentioned that they had “no clue” as to what prompted the authorities to take the measure.
A kanwariya from UP mentioned “passing by mosques and mazars had not bothered us previously and doesn’t have an effect on us this 12 months as effectively.”
Ratan Mani Dobhal, a neighborhood, mentioned, “Such a factor mustn’t have been carried out. Perhaps some officers thought it needed”. A senior police officer blamed it on the “ignorance proven by some native officers”.
