By Nibir Deka / Times Now News
Assam Hindutva leader and President of Kutumba Surakshya Mission Satya Ranjan Borah has demanded the removal of loudspeakers from mosques. Speaking exclusively to Times Now on March 13, Borah stated that “loudspeakers should be banned.” “Forget decibel levels, I have been telling since the last 3 years, that loudspeakers should be banned.”
Borah claimed that loudspeakers are not a part of the Islamic faith. “In the Dhemaji district of Assam, there are fewer or almost no loudspeakers, are the muslims of that any less. Were there loudspeakers 1400 years ago,” questioned Satya Ranjan Borah.
He further added that the usage of loudspeakers in the early morning has caused hindrances to people. “Someone is meditating, kids are studying, or think about a pregnant woman, it affects them at the early morning if the loudspeakers not stopped,” added Borah. The President of Kutumba Surakshya Mission had earlier been on the news for making controversial comments.
The comments of Borah have come at a time when the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray reiterated his call for loudspeakers in mosques to be shut down till May 3. Otherwise, he warned the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government that MNS workers would play the Hanuman Chalisa in front of mosques.
Earlier, the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) criticised the move by the Karnataka police to set limits on the usage of loudspeakers in mosques under permissible decibel levels. The General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of AIUDF Aminul Islam has called the move “an attack on the Muslim community.”
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