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| Open Namaz row: Haryana CM is challenging Islam, says BJP national council member | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 13: Amid raging controversy over Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's statement on open namaz, senior BJP leader and national council member of the party Rafiq Wani on Monday said that Khattar is challenging Islam by his highly provocative statement.
“Namaz can be offered at any place be it open or inside the mosque.
By not allowing Namaz in open Manohar Lal Khattar has challenging Islam”, Wani told The Early Times and strongly condemned statement of Khattar.
Haryana Chief Minister on Friday said that namaz should not be offered in the open and the practice will not be tolerated. He said that an earlier decision where some sites had been reserved for the purpose had been withdrawn.
While reacting to the Gurgaon controversy, Khattar said, “We have told the police and the Deputy Commissioner that this issue has to be resolved. To resolve it, everyone offers prayers at their own place, someone offers namaz, someone does path, someone does puja, we have no issue with that. And religious places are built for these purposes only so that prayers are offered there. Such practises should not take place in the open, this practice of offering namaz prayers here in the open, this will not be tolerated”.
“People offers Namaz in open only during Friday so there is no reason to disallow people”, Wani said and regretted that Haryana Chief Minister is playing with the sentiments of the people.
“Statement of Haryana Chief Minister is not acceptable to us”, Wani, who is a national council member of the party, asserted and termed the statement of Khattar as ‘totally wrong.
Rafiq Wani is a senior leader of BJP and he was nominated as a member of the national council of the party along with two former ministers.
In January 2020, Rafiq Wani along with former ministers Shakti Parihar and Priya Sethi and BJP vice-president Ali Muhammad Mir, and Mudassar Wani was elected as a national council member.
He was also nominated as representative of Jammu and Kashmir in the consultative committee of the Food Corporation of India (FCI).
Wani, who had joined BJP in 2014, had contested the election against former chief minister late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed from the Anantnag assembly constituency. |
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