HARIDWAR: Amid the continuing 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 non secular locations of the minority neighborhood away from public view”.
The top of a mosque referred to as the measure “unprecedented”. A number of kanwariyas mentioned this was “pointless”.Many Hindu residents of Haridwar additionally questioned the transfer, with considered one of them dubbing it “condemnable”.
Nevertheless, senior Uttarakhand cupboard minister Satpal Maharaj justified it, saying, “This has been executed in order that there is no such thing as a pointless pleasure or provocation from any facet and the yatra runs easily.” Acknowledging that “this has been executed for the primary time”, he added: “Govt will have a look at the suggestions over the transfer.”
Haridwar DM Dheeraj Singh Garbyal informed TOI that the district administration wasn’t accountable for the step.
On Friday afternoon, as information of this unfold by means of the city and past, a couple of particular cops (SPO) and volunteers have been seen unexpectedly eradicating the screens. Danish, an SPO, mentioned, “I’m doing it on the behest of Jwalapur railway police submit”. He, nevertheless, refused to disclose 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 they’d “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 up to now and doesn’t have an effect on us this yr as properly.”
Ratan Mani Dobhal, a neighborhood, mentioned, “Such a factor shouldn’t have been executed. Possibly some officers thought it essential”. A senior police officer blamed it on the “ignorance proven by some native officers”.
The top of a mosque referred to as the measure “unprecedented”. A number of kanwariyas mentioned this was “pointless”.Many Hindu residents of Haridwar additionally questioned the transfer, with considered one of them dubbing it “condemnable”.
Nevertheless, senior Uttarakhand cupboard minister Satpal Maharaj justified it, saying, “This has been executed in order that there is no such thing as a pointless pleasure or provocation from any facet and the yatra runs easily.” Acknowledging that “this has been executed for the primary time”, he added: “Govt will have a look at the suggestions over the transfer.”
Haridwar DM Dheeraj Singh Garbyal informed TOI that the district administration wasn’t accountable for the step.
On Friday afternoon, as information of this unfold by means of the city and past, a couple of particular cops (SPO) and volunteers have been seen unexpectedly eradicating the screens. Danish, an SPO, mentioned, “I’m doing it on the behest of Jwalapur railway police submit”. He, nevertheless, refused to disclose 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 they’d “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 up to now and doesn’t have an effect on us this yr as properly.”
Ratan Mani Dobhal, a neighborhood, mentioned, “Such a factor shouldn’t have been executed. Possibly some officers thought it essential”. A senior police officer blamed it on the “ignorance proven by some native officers”.
