Attempt For Communal Rift, You’ll See Owaisi Enter: Patil On Loudspeaker Row

Mumbai: Maharashtra NCP chief Jayant Patil said that MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s loudspeaker remark is a “deliberate attempt to create communal tension” in Maharashtra.

The political debate in Maharashtra started when Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray raised the issue of loudspeakers in mosques during the Gudi Padwa meeting.

The MNS chief has demanded the removal of loudspeakers from mosques before May 3. He has also warned the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government that MNS workers will play Hanuman Chalisa, a collection of devotional hymns dedicated to Lord Hanuman. In front of mosques when their demands are not met by the deadline.

Reacting to the issue, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) state chief said it was “a deliberate attempt to create communal tension in the state.”

Talking to reporters, Patil further said, ‘In the coming days you will see Owaisi’s entry in the picture after Raj Thackeray. This is an attempt to start a communal rift and untoward incidents in the state.

The reference to ‘Owaisi’ comes up in the debate over loudspeakers with Sanjay Raut’s recent remark in which he said for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Raj Thackeray is Owaisi in Maharashtra. With this remark, Raut was saying that the MNS is “vote- katua’ ” in the state like Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM did in the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly

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