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Ham ne bhi choodiyaan nahi pahen rakhi hain; Muslim women will read Quran outside temples: SP leader

Police booked her on Monday evening over allegations of “making objectionable statements against a community”.   

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader Rubina Khanam warned against provoking Muslims and playing with other people’s religion.

Aligarh Police booked her on Monday evening over allegations of “making objectionable statements against a community”.   

In a video which went viral she claimed that BJP government is targeting Muslims for its politics of polarisation. She said BJP also had towering leaders like Atal Bihar Vajpayee who adhered to values but today BJP has forgotten those values and is on the path of divide and rule policy.

Khanam, who is the city president of Mahila Sabha, the SP’s women’s wing, according to her Facebook profile, was in the news in February for having said that she would “chop off the hands of those who would touch the hijab”. 

Khanam’s latest statements came at a time when there is an ongoing battle being waged over the use of loudspeakers at places of worship. Last week, the ABVP and the Hindu Mahasabha announced that they were going to install loudspeakers at 21 crossings in Aligarh to play Hanuman Chalisa.

Saying that it is a matter of our faith, Khanam observed that loudspeakers had been installed at temples and masjids earlier too, and people have been following their own faith without other people’s objection.

It is “extremely wrong as it was happening during the pious month of Ramzan”, she says in the video.

Saying that “Humne  bhi choodiyan nahin pehen rakhi hain (we are not wearing bangles),” she told that Muslim women will peacefully sit in front of temples and recite the Quran, if they try to interfere in Muslim faith and hurt Muslim sentiments.

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