Through PTI
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Ajit Pawar has attacked MNS president Raj Thackeray over the latter’s call for for the elimination of loudspeakers from mosques, announcing the state can’t have enough money the alleged divisive name given “to delight any person eyeing polls”.
With out naming Thackeray, Pawar requested what the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader was once going to reach through making such statements and whether or not “upsetting” folks will clear up the problem in their livelihood.
“The Maharashtra of Shahu, Phule, Ambedkar can’t have enough money the speeches made to delight any person protecting eye on elections,” Pawar mentioned at an tournament in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district on Wednesday.
He mentioned that Maharashtra has ensured communal solidarity for years, however “leaders of a few events” have of overdue been speaking about putting in loudspeakers “right here and there”.
“Some individuals are seeking to create confusion within the society. Now we have been dwelling in solidarity for years now. Now we have been in a position to stay communal solidarity intact in society through no longer permitting any rift in communities and religions. However leaders of a few events are creating a pitch for putting in counter- loudspeakers (to play Hanuman chalisa),” the senior NCP chief mentioned.
Taunting Thackeray, Pawar mentioned it’s simple to ship speeches, and added that MNS functionaries themselves have puzzled the birthday celebration leader’s observation as they have got to stand the folk and get elected once more.
“Why this department? What are we going to reach out of this?” he requested.
Pawar additional mentioned time has come to introspect the place such statements would lead Maharashtra and the rustic to.
“Don’t seem to be there different problems? Will the problem of folks’s bread and butter be solved through upsetting them? Will the youths, who misplaced their jobs all the way through the COVID-19 pandemic, get their jobs again?” he requested.
The MNS president had ultimate Saturday made a powerful pitch for getting rid of high-decibel loudspeakers from mosques.
Addressing a rally at Shivaji Park, Thackeray had additionally mentioned if any such step was once no longer taken, loudspeakers can be put in out of doors mosques to play ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ at upper quantity.
The BJP had counseled Thackeray’s call for.
Vasant Extra, a former MNS corporator in Pune, who’s the birthday celebration’s town unit president, had mentioned it’s tough to behave on Thackeray’s directive about loudspeakers.
“As a town unit president, I undoubtedly have to just accept the stand of birthday celebration leader Rajsaheb Thackeray, however I believe as a folks’s consultant (corporator ), the problem (to enforce Thackeray’s diktat ) may also be inconvenient for me in my ward. A folks’s consultant has to take an inclusive manner,” Extra had mentioned.