Stop using loudspeakers in centres of worship: Dr Hampa
Udupi, June 8: Noted writer Dr Hampa Nagarajaiah said that either the Prime Minister or the respective governments should take steps to stop using loudspeakers in centres of worship.
After receiving Sediyapu Krishna Bhat award at a programme organized by the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Research Centre and, Manipal Academy of Higher Education at the MGM College here on Friday, he said that people of respective religions have to do prayers in their centres of worships. But stop using loudspeakers, he said.
India has become a nation of holidays. Perhaps no other country in the world has these many holidays. Being the secular country, each caste is being given a holiday. Such holidays are detrimental to the development of the country. Let the government declare only one holiday on August 15. The Prime Minister should take a decision in the Parliament, he said.
Cultural thinker Dr Erya Lakshminarayan Alva, Dr H Shantaram, Prof Taltaje Vasanth Kumar, Prof KP Rao, Dr SJ Bhat, Prof Varadesh Hiregange and others were present.
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Devendra Fadnavis plays video of Islamic scholar at Pune rally, harps on 'vote jihad'
Pune, Nov 16: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis continued to raise the pitch on "vote jihad" by playing a video of Islamic scholar Sajjad Nomani at a poll rally in Pune's Bhosari area on Saturday.
It is being said that a person who votes for the BJP must be ostracised, Fadnavis claimed.
"If these people are trying to do vote jihad, if they are saying they will destabilise the government through vote jihad, then you will also have to do dharmayudh of votes," Fadnavis said.
"If these people dream that they will come to power with the help of votes from one community in the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, then you will also have to come to the battlefield," he said in a swipe at the MVA.
