After row over offering ‘namaz’ in open spaces, some miscreants tried to disrupt Christmas eve celebrations by raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at Gurgaon’s Pataudi. According to reports, the incident occurred when blankets and food were being distributed to poor children at a school in Pataudi.
The video shows some men entering the church premises on Friday evening and raising slogans ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. They are seen allegedly pushing the choir members down the stage and snatching the mike.
“It was scary as we had women and children around in the church. The nuisance is increasing with each passing day. It’s an infringement of our right to pray and religion,” a local pastor was quoted by PTI.
Pataudi station house officer Amit Kumar said the police did not receive any complaint so far. The local administration is yet to respond.
This came on a day when at least 20 men affiliated with Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti reached Gurgaon’s Shyam Chowk at Udyog Vihar and tried to disrupt Friday ‘namaz’. However, people managed to offer prayers at nine locations — Leisure Valley, Shyam Chowk, Shankar Chowk, near Spicejet office at Udyog Vihar, Sector 42, Sector 69, two sites in IMT Manesar and Sector 34 — after heavy police deployment.
Parveen Yadav, who led the protesters at Shyam Chowk, was quoted by Indian Express: “We have filed complaints at two police stations and urged the administration to take action against people violating the (Haryana) CM’s orders. If there is no action, we will continue our agitation next week.”
CM Manohar Lal Khattar had on Tuesday said during the winter session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, “People of all faiths hold prayers at designated religious places and permissions are given for all big festivals and programmes in open. But by displaying a show of strength provoking sentiments of another community is not appropriate… No member of any community should hold such programmes in open spaces.”
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