Shimla: A current efficiency by Sabri brothers on the Worldwide Mandi Shivratri truthful — an occasion organised by the Himachal Pradesh authorities — has come underneath criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) which sought an apology from the ruling Congress get together for allegedly hurting sentiments of the Hindus.
The opposition get together put out a collection of tweets with a video exhibiting the Sufi singers from the cultural occasion that occurred on the night of 19 February. On its half, the Congress asserted that the BJP leaders “didn’t do their homework nicely”.
“After profitable the elections, the Congress leaders had mentioned that we’ve defeated Hindutva, is that this act a proof of that? What does the Congress need to show by singing the Qawwali of Allah Hu within the Devbhoomi the place Hindu inhabitants is 97%, the place Shivratri is of worldwide customary, which is named Chhoti Kashi? (sic),” the BJP state unit tweeted from its official deal with Monday.
चुनाव मे जीतने पर कांग्रेस नेताओं ने कहा था कि हमने हिंदुत्व को हरा दिया, क्या ये हरकत उसी का प्रमाण है?
जिस देवभूमि मे हिंदू आबादी 97% हो,जहां की शिवरात्रि अंतर्राष्ट्रीय स्तर की हो,जिसे छोटी काशी कहा जाता हो वहां पर अल्लाह हू की कव्वाली गवाकर क्या सिद्ध करना चाहती है कांग्रेस? pic.twitter.com/b2XzhZJ1xQ
— BJP Himachal Pradesh (@BJP4Himachal) February 20, 2023
The opposition get together additionally sought to offer out the message that it was not towards any faith however the selection of state because it was “carried out in a Hindu competition”. ““The state Congress authorities ought to apologise for hurting Hindu sentiments,” it added.
However the opposition get together was seemingly caught in a difficult state of affairs after a video clip emerged Tuesday wherein the qawals purportedly sang the identical set of songs at Worldwide Kullu Dussehra on October 7 final yr.
On Tuesday midday, an invite card purportedly from Worldwide Kullu Dussehra 2022 additionally went viral exhibiting the schedule of the occasion. The cardboard had the names of the Sabri brothers too. Again then, Jairam Thakur headed a BJP authorities in Himachal Pradesh.
The BJP state unit went forward to lift its pet subject regardless of get together nationwide president J. P. Nadda advising the get together lawmakers in a digital assembly on 17 February to chorus from harping on narratives that might be perceived as polarising and as an alternative deal with growth.
Calls to BJP leaders authorised to talk with the media went unattended.
A senior BJP chief, nonetheless, conceded that the get together has to consider the episode as “tweeting or Fb posts on each subject received’t earn something for the get together”.
The Congress chief talked about earlier mentioned it was not going all out towards the rival get together for avoiding any additional controversy. “The BJP is in a rush to cook dinner up some allegations and assault the Congress. They (BJP leaders) actually didn’t do the homework,” a Congress chief mentioned, including that the get together was not prepared to get again on the rival get together as “it will solely escalate the difficulty.”
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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