No 2-Hour Namaz Break In Assam Meeting On Fridays For Muslim MLAs

The Assam meeting used to adjourn for 2 hours on Fridays for namaz break. (Representational)

Guwahati:

The Assam meeting has determined to scrap its decades-old rule of giving a two-hour namaz break for Muslim legislators on Fridays. The meeting guidelines committee at present adopted a decision at present to proceed the enterprise of the Home on Friday like different days. Until at present, the Assam meeting used to adjourn for 2 hours on Fridays to permit the Muslim MLAs to attend the namaz prayers.

“Because the creation of the Assam Legislative Meeting, the sitting of the Meeting on Friday was once adjourned at 11 am to facilitate Muslim members to go for namaz. The meeting used to renew its proceedings within the post-lunch session after the Muslim members got here again from the namaz. On all different days, the Home used to conduct its proceedings with none such adjournment for non secular functions,” stated a press assertion.

It additional said, “Shri Biswajit Daimary, Hon’ble Speaker took word of this matter and in view of the secular nature of the Structure, proposed that the Assam Legislative Meeting should conduct its proceedings on Fridays like another day with none adjournment to facilitate Muslim members to go for namaz,”.

“By casting off the 2-hour Jumma break, @AssamAssembly has prioritised productiveness and shed one other vestige of colonial baggage. This apply was launched by Muslim League’s Syed Saadulla in 1937,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma posted on X.

By casting off the two hour Jumma break, @AssamAssembly has prioritised productiveness and shed one other vestige of colonial baggage.

This apply was launched by Muslim League’s Syed Saadulla in 1937.

My gratitude to Hon’ble Speaker Shri @BiswajitDaimar5 dangoriya and our…

— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) August 30, 2024

The opposition has criticised the transfer and stated it “hurts Muslim sentiments”.

On Fridays, there shall be bother in these two hours if any essential invoice comes for dialogue, we’d not be there,” stated AIUDF MLA Rafikul Islam.

His occasion colleague Mujibur Rehman alleged, “So many chief ministers got here however nobody tried this however Himanta Biswas Sarma is simply doing this to harm the Muslim sentiments and create a divide between and Hindus Muslims”.

Congress MLA Jakir Hussain Sikdar stated, “This has been a convention and a pattern that the Home adopted for many years. They determined to alter it however was there a broader session? They’ve to clarify why this choice was taken.”

BJP MLA Taranga Gogoi welcomed the transfer and stated there shouldn’t be particular guidelines for one neighborhood.

“This can be a secular nation and contained in the meeting, there shouldn’t be particular guidelines for one neighborhood so we welcome this choice. If they should supply namaz they will have a separate room like in airports and so forth. They can’t have separate preparations. Each Friday, the Home was once adjourned for 2 hours. This was a waste of time,” he stated.

With this decision, Assam is ready to a different pre-Independence period rule.

On Thursday, the meeting handed a Invoice that may require obligatory registration of Muslim marriages and divorces with the federal government.

The Meeting handed the Assam Obligatory Registration of Muslim Marriages and Divorces Invoice, 2024, aiming to safeguard the rights of Muslim men and women and get rid of youngster marriages. This laws replaces the archaic Assam Moslem Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935.