The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the BJP's youth wing, today blocked a road in Howrah, near Calcutta, and its followers recited the Hanuman Chalisa to protest namaz readings by Muslims on Fridays on various roads.
In a video released by ANI on its Twitter handle, BJYM Howrah district president O.P. Singh said: 'In Mamata Banerjee's rule we have seen Grand Trunk Road and other main roads being blocked on Fridays for namaz. Patients die, people cannot reach office on time because of this. As long as this continues, we will recite Hanuman Chalisa on Tuesdays on all main roads near Hanuman temples.'
There has been no report of a patient dying because of namaz readings on Fridays in Calcutta or its surrounding areas in recent months. But there have been murmurs of discontent in some sections of Calcutta over Friday prayers of Muslims, in which the BJP and its frontal organisations have found a scope to start a campaign.
SInce the Lok Sabha elections, Bengal has also become an ever bubbling pot of communal tension and violence.
Yesterday, a resident of Canning in South 24-Parganas, was hit on his right eye, his kurta torn and he was pushed out of the train at Park Circus station, allegedly by members of Hindu Samhati, a Hindutva organisation that describes itself as non-political.
“I am still scared. The youths had scarves around their heads that had the word Hindu Samhati written on it. They kept asking me why I was sporting a skullcap, why I had a long beard, why I was wearing a kurta. ‘You can’t wear all these. Jai Shri Ram bol’, they said,” the survivor Shahrukh told The Telegraph on Tuesday. “There were some 20-25 of them in the compartment.”
Yesterday's incident came to light soon after the lynching of a 24-year-old welder, Tabrez Ansari, in Jamshedpur by a mob that asked him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'. Tabrez, who was thrashed for hours, died.
Many posted their support to the Hanuman Chalisa reading in Howrah today:
Maybe this is the only way for existing laws to be implemented nationwide. Maha artis and Hanuman chalisa and more recitation all over India. So the abhrahamic goons stop.
— P.C.Chaudhri (@chaudhri_p) June 26, 2019
@BJPBengal @YouthBJP Great job BJP youth wing of Bengal. More power to you. Hope you continue with this till either you make a change or die trying.
— Akash Anshuman (@AkashAnshuman) June 26, 2019
Enough is enough with those Intolerant-Barbaric-Invaders.
Excellent response .....Hanuman Chalisa is the right answer https://t.co/Dq5AclUCJA
— No Conversion (@noconversion) June 26, 2019
pehli Baar Aisa achha mehsush hua ki Shanti wali kaum k opposition mein kuch to inhi ki tarah karna chahiye lekin media ab ye dikhayega ki jabardasti Hanuman chalisa padho ja Rahi hai aur achha to ye hoga daily subah Aarti bhi honi chahiye akhir hamare to 35cr Devi Devta hai😄😍
— pradeep kumar (@pradeepkumarcad) June 26, 2019
Probably drawing inspiration from festive pandals and shamiana, some wanted to have Hanuman Chalisa booming on loudspeakers.
https://t.co/cm08TRXXgi similar protests should be organised across country by having loudspeaker aartis from 4.30 am everyday to protest the loudspeaker azaan @Dev_Fadnavis @AmitShah @AUThackeray @BJP4India @BJP4Bengal
— Devang Visaria (@devangvisaria) June 26, 2019
Can we also have hanuman chalisa on loud speakers 5 times a day?
— Ashwatthama (@_Ashwatthama_) June 26, 2019
Very good step ...a big slap on the face of people who promote appeasement for a particular gorup. We are secular and should be treated at par. when govt is allowing Namaz on road then why not hanuman chalisa on road...JAI SHRI RAM
— Sanjay Sachdeva (@sanjaysachasl) June 26, 2019
Not sure if this is right but there should be equality. https://t.co/3sdd6pQmit
— Amit Kankaria (@amit_kankaria) June 26, 2019
Replicable in other places too
— Venkat Vasant (@VenkatVasant) June 26, 2019
JaiShriRam https://t.co/iiyZmsHITY
To all my right winger friends.... Hope this makes you happy.... Becoming a religiously obsessed relic of a nation :) https://t.co/u9DKFpoRWf
— Praful Baweja (@huesofpink) June 26, 2019
Like that will help !!!! It's only going to make it more worse but #BJP cannot understand this. Slim line difference is Namaz offered is sincere but Hanuman chalisa won't be !!! https://t.co/7fC4gfb3oZ
— Neelesh Tripathi (@neelesh2701) June 26, 2019
Someone even pointed out the difference between processions taken out by the two said communities.
Media always shows Ms praying on road as something of a bonhomie. The scene is always serene and pious with Pigeons flying in the background and all. When Hs take out a procession, you'll find pics of policemen and boisterous crowd.@VamseeJuluri https://t.co/wPpOdjTCod
— Spurty (@SpurtyRao) June 26, 2019
There were members on the social media platform who expressed their concerns about more relevant topics that affect the masses on a daily basis.
BTW will your hanuman chalisa recitation alleviate poverty, unemployment, bring the dead children in BJP/JDU ruled bihar back? Or it is to create communal tensions, to fulfill your petty politics?
— Deepanjan (@dkrish85) June 26, 2019
We all will go to graves after a short time no matter u were a Hindu, Muslim or Christian. No one is the real Badshah, no matter how much u try. Be a kind human and spread love when ur alive. Religion is to unite humans, not to divide #DaraHuaMusalman #JaiShriRam Hanuman Chalisa
— Sadath Ali (@pvsadathali) June 26, 2019
Dear @PMOIndia is this how you hope to achieve ‘sab ka saath, sab ka vishvaas’? https://t.co/eSclMGv4b7
— Madhumita Mazumdar (@mmazumdar2014) June 26, 2019
