New Delhi: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in Jharkhand high court against the allocation of a dedicated room for Muslims to offer namaaz in the state assembly building.
This comes amid a ruckus in the state assembly over the same, with the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) calling it the state government’s “appeasement politics”.
Petitioner Bhairav Singh has sought cancellation of the notification issued to this effect on September 2 by the assembly Secretariat.
The BJP has been stalling the proceedings in the ongoing monsoon session, demanding that either the notification be cancelled or they also be granted a place for worship. Party legislators did kirtan outside the House on Monday and read Hanuman Chalisa inside the well of the House on Tuesday.
The state government has defended the notification, saying there has been such a room earlier, when the BJP was in power.
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