Days before former President Pranab Mukherjee’s much-anticipated address at an RSS event, the Nagpur-based right wing organization is embroiled in another controversy.
Days before former President Pranab Mukherjee’s much-anticipated address at an RSS event, the Nagpur-based right wing organization is embroiled in another controversy.
The issue is related to an Iftar Party request made by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Maharashtra unit, which was rejected by the parent organisation.
According to a report by The Indian Express, the Rashtriya Muslim Manch, the sole Muslim organisation in the Sangh Parivar niche, on Tuesday said that there was no question of someone else hosting an Iftar as it is not what has been said in Islam.
‘Iftar is always hosted by the one who throws the party. Islam doesn’t ask someone else to host the party for Muslims. The request by the Maharashtra unit leader at Nagpur to the RSS is fundamentally flawed on this count and he has been told about it,’ Rashtriya Muslim Manch’s national president Mohammad Afzal was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
The controversy that has been brewing for quite some time began last week when Faruq Sheikh, the convenor of Maharashtra Manch made a request for an Iftar party to RSS Nagpur Mahanagar Sanghchalak Rajesh Loya.
But the RSS turned down the request and reportedly said that, ‘no parties can be hosted there.’
Meanwhile, the Muslim Rashtriya Manch’s Iftar party in Mumbai has also raised some concerns. Trouble surfaced after objections were raised against the use of the state government-owned Sahyadri Guest House at Malabar Hill for the purpose.
Senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary Indresh Kumar, who is Muslim Rashtriya Manch’s chief patron, is scheduled to attend the event to be hosted on Monday.
"Government rules bar any activity other than official meetings and workshops (sic) from being held at the guest house. Even such events can only be scheduled by the senior-most elected officials (the chief minister, deputy chief minister, ministers and ministers of state) and the senior-most bureaucrats (the state's chief secretary, additional chief secretary, secretaries and officials of similar rank). The rules do not permit events of hosting Iftaar party, which is a religious event," noted Advocate Adil Khatri and RTI activist Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh, in a written application to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis about the "unauthorised use" of the guesthouse for the event.
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