The saffron party also questioned the government’s wisdom in releasing funds for the congregation even while claiming that the previous BRS government had left behind an empty treasury.
Team Clarion
HYDERABAD — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken strong exception to the state government’s permission to Tablighi Jamat to hold an Islamic congregation at Parigi in Telangana’s Vikarabad district from Jan. 6 to 8.
The saffron party has also strongly objected to the state government’s decision to sanction more than Rs 2.40 crore for providing basic infrastructure for the planned three-day congregation.
BJP’s national general secretary and the party’s Karimnagar member of Parliament Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday demanded immediate withdrawal of the permission for the meeting. In a press statement, he also accused the organisation of its involvement in “forced conversions as well as terror activities.”
The BJP leader urged Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to take action against the officials involved in giving permission and for taking steps to release funds for the congregation. He wondered if the intelligence and police circles had informed the chief minister about the organisation’s “dangerous” activities and the threat it poses to Telangana society and the country at large.
Kumar also claimed that the organisation was banned even in several Islamic nations. These countries, he claimed, had even barred members of the organisation from entering religious places and prohibited citizens of the respective nations from participating in its activities.
Kumar reiterated the saffron clan’s oft-repeated but unproven allegation of Tablighi Jamat being responsible for the spread of COVID during the pandemic outbreak when it held a congregation in the Nizamuddin area in New Delhi in January 2020. The organisation is planning to host a similar congregation just when the alarming news of a new COVID variant spreading across the world and in the country has come to light, he said.
The Karimnagar MP also questioned the government’s wisdom in releasing funds for the congregation even when it has been claiming that the previous BRS government had left behind an empty treasury. If the government does not withdraw permissions, it will have to face dire consequences later on, he warned.
