'Allah-hu-akbar' in Malanggarh Mandir! Who's responsible for these quarrels in Maharashtra?

Mumbai, March 31: In a religious brawl yet again in the state of Maharashtra , some people from the Muslim community chanted 'Allah-hu-Akbar' during the Aarti at the Machindarnath Samadhi in Malanggarh, Maharashtra, creating a tense situation. On the occasion of Magha Purnima, about 50 to 60 people of the Hindu community performed the Aarti at the Machindarnath Samadhi in Malanggarh of Kalyan East.

 

 

 

Every year, the devotees of Machindranath take a religious journey called Magh Purnima Srimalang Yatra till Malang Garh Fort to pay their respects to Machindranath. However, due to an outbreak of the coronavirus, this year’s trip was cancelled. But at the insistence of Shiv Sena, according to Hindu traditions, Hindus were allowed to perform all religious rituals in the temple of Machindranath. As per government rules, annual bath, palanquin, gandamala, naivedya, maha aarti, were allowed to attend 50 devotees including government officials and other dignitaries. 

 

 

However, the fundamentalists did not like this and planned to interrupt Aarti.  Five minutes after the aarti began, a violent mob of 50-60 Muslim fundamentalists entered the ancient temple of Machindranath atop the Malang Garh fort to disrupt the aarti being performed by Hindu devotees. This video has now gone viral on social media. In the video, crowds of Muslims can be seen chanting ‘Allah-Hu-Akbar’, threatening Hindu devotees against performing their rituals. Not only this, to stop the Hindus from carrying on their annual tradition, they shouted around them.

 

 

As soon as the Hindu organizations came to know about this, they informed the police about it. The police allowed only seven Hindu devotees to enter the temple for the Aarti, citing coronavirus restrictions.  Hindu organizations complained against the Muslims who sabotaged the temple at the Hill Road Police Station. However, the police assured that they would investigate without registering the case. Hindu groups gave the police an ultimatum of 4 days to investigate the incident and arrest the culprits, failing which they called for a massive agitation.

 

 

The incident occurred on March 28 at 8 pm. It is being told that when the police tried to intervene, the Muslim mob grabbed the collars of the policemen and pushed them. So far four people in the case Arrested has been done.

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