Meerut: AIMIM and BJP councillors get proper right into a brawl over ‘Vande Mataram’
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On Friday, May 26, councillors of Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) get collectively and BJP traded blows on the Meerut Municipal Corporation Mayor and Councillors’ swearing-in ceremony. The scuffle allegedly broke out after AIMIM get collectively councillors raised an objection to India’s nationwide music ‘Vande Mataram’.
Reportedly, the AIMIM councillors refused to sing and stand up whereas India’s National music ‘Vande Mataram’ was being carried out in the midst of the ceremony.
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The dispute escalated from a verbal skirmish to a full-fledged bodily brawl, with members of every occasions throwing punches and blows at each other.
BJP chief and Rajya Sabha member Laxmikant Vajpayee who was present in the midst of the ceremony alleged that the matter escalated after the AIMIM councillors made some objectionable suggestions.
Meerut police, within the meantime, have taken to Twitter to inform regarding the incident. “When Vande Mataram was played during the swearing-in ceremony, some AIMIM councillors remained seated and protested.” Other councillors had been outraged. This resulted in sloganeering and a commotion. The cops on the scene intervened and separated the councillors from each other,” the police tweeted in Hindi.
शपथ ग्रहण समारोह में वंदे मातरम शुरू होने पर कुछ AIMIM के पार्षद बैठे रहे और उन्होंने विरोध किया। जिसका विरोध अन्य पार्षदों ने किया।मौके पर नारेबाजी और हंगामा होने पर मौके पर मौजूद पुलिस द्वारा दोनों पक्षों को अलग किया गया।
— MEERUT POLICE (@meerutpolice) May 26, 2023
The incident occurred on Friday on the Subhash Chandra Bose Auditorium of Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, when the newly elected mayor and councillors had been being sworn in. During the ceremony, the BJP councillors started singing the nationwide music (Vande Mataram).
The AIMIM councillors objected to the singing of the National Song. They neither sang the nationwide music nor stand up in reverence, which irritated the BJP members. The BJP members objected to this behaviour. Members of every occasions acquired proper right into a verbal spat, thereafter. Within no time, the verbal altercation devolved into an all-out bodily altercation.
The police intervened and requested the AIMIM councillors to depart the auditorium. AIMIM councillors acquired way more agitated on account of this. Collector Deepak Meena rushed to the venue to pacify the AIMIM members. The AIMIM councillors had been, nonetheless, so indignant that they boycotted the swearing-in ceremony and walked away with out taking the oath.
The commissioner, within the meantime, administered the oath to the mayor and someway achieved the formalities of the ceremony inside the midst of the next ruckus.
It is also recalled that in 2021, AIMIM MLA Akhtarul Iman, who had raised objections to ‘Hindustan’ written in his affidavit in the midst of the oath-taking ceremony of the seventeenth state assembly of Bihar, had as quickly as as soon as extra courted controversy after he raised an objection to India’s nationwide music ‘Vande Mataram’. Iman, who was moreover the Bihar State president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen get collectively then, had refused to sing the National music ‘Vande Mataram’ over the past day of the Bihar assembly winter session, calling it ‘against his faith and religion’.
Speaking to the media, the AIMIM Bihar president questioned why it was important to sing the nationwide music and talked about that whereas he had nothing in the direction of singing the nationwide music, saying ‘Vande Mataram’ was in the direction of his religion.
