Kanpur / Ranchi / Patna: The Jharkhand assembly decision to allocate rooms in place to MLAS to offer Namaaz has had ripples in other countries.
While Samajwadi Mla’s party on Tuesday demanded the same room at Vidhan Sabha, a BJP MLA in Bihar had requested arrangements to shout “Hanuman Chalisa” and read “Bhagavad Gita” by Hindu legislators.
A pill was put forward in the Jharkhand High Court on the decision by the State Assembly, called it a “strike in secularism” and protested the assembly process marked because some BJP MLA came as a Hindu Imam.
They want the speaker to call the lunch break 30 minutes before his schedule on Tuesday so that BJP parliamentarians can pray to Lord Hanuman.
The Samajwadi Mla party from Kanpur Irfan Solanki on Tuesday said he had approached the assembly speaker who demanded the prayer room in the assembly.
At Patna, BJP MLA Bhushan Thakur Bachol, on Tuesday demanded a room to say “Hanuman Chalisa” or read “Bhagavad Gita” at Bihar Vidhan Sabha.
“I have spoken with speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha on Tuesday but he hasn’t promised to fulfill my request,” Bachol said.
Meanwhile, pills were submitted at Jharkhand HC on Tuesday against a separate room allocation to offer Namaz within the State Assemblies Building.
Calling the move as a strike against secularism, Bhairav Singh’s applicant said the Assembly was a public building and allocated rooms for classes or special communities against secular and social fabrics in general.
Protests also broke out at Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday, because some BJP parliamentarians appeared to attend the dressing trial like the priests to protest the notification of the speaker Rabindra Nath Mahto to share Namaaz.
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