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MPs Urge Amit Shah on Mosque Loudspeakers and Voter Tribunals

MPs Urge Amit Shah on Mosque Loudspeakers and Voter Tribunals
Yusuf Pathan, Two More NCPI MPs Write To Amit Shah, Seek Appropriate Directions Concerning Mosque Loudspeakers in Murshidabad · republicworld.com

Three leaders from a district in India wrote a letter to a very important government minister.

Their names are Yusuf Pathan, Khalilur Rahaman, and Abu Taher Khan.

The minister they wrote to is Amit Shah, who is in charge of home affairs.

The leaders said police are telling mosques to take down their loudspeakers.

Mosques use loudspeakers to call people to prayer.

The leaders said the noise rules should be followed fairly and gently, without hurting people's religious feelings.

They also said many people's names were removed from the voting list by mistake.

Those people are waiting for special courts called tribunals to fix the problem.

Without their voting cards, they face trouble getting passports, registering land, and receiving government help.

So the leaders asked for the cases to be finished quickly, for more tribunals, and for a system where people can complain.

Key facts

Letter writers
Yusuf Pathan, Khalilur Rahaman and Abu Taher Khan (NCPI MPs, Murshidabad region)
Addressed to
Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Issue 1
Police directing mosques to remove microphones or loudspeakers
Guiding principle
Supreme Court directions on noise regulations to be respected fully
Issue 2
Long-pending EPIC tribunal cases; genuine voters' names deleted from electoral rolls
Impact of delays
Difficulties in passport verification, land registration, and access to government welfare schemes
Demands
Fast-track genuine cases by year-end, additional tribunal benches, grievance monitoring mechanism

Quotes

Three NCPI MPs – Yusuf Pathan, Khalilur Rahaman, and Abu Taher Khan

NCPI Members of Parliament representing Murshidabad district

“"Ensure fair, uniform, and sensitive implementation without hurting religious sentiments"”
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