Former MLA Zameer Ullah Khan
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In Aligarh, former SP MLA Zameerullah has taken a jibe at the first time Namaz was not offered on the streets. He has said that this has happened for the first time in the history of his life, when he did not go to Idgah on the occasion of Bakrid and could not hug people. He said that although it was not a law, it was the order of the government, so he obeyed. As a protest, she offered Namaz in the mosque of her locality.
They say that three times a year Muslim brothers go to the graves of their elders to read Fatiha. Twice on Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha and once on Shab-e-Barat. The Idgah is at par with the graveyard. That’s why a large number of people go there. But for the first time it was seen that the Idgah was surrounded by bayonets and police vehicles. There it was banned not to offer Namaz on such a road as if it was a highway. Hey, Namaz is read in five to ten minutes.
When a political rally is allowed and traffic is restricted on the routes around it why can’t there be traffic restrictions for Namaz. The employment of peddlers of all religions around Idgah was affected and could not provide food grains to the poor who live by begging. One was that BJP, when Rajnath Singh himself used to reach Idgah on the occasions of Eid when he was the Chief Minister. Today it is BJP.