Manipur CM hits back at Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘Chinese remark’ on Assam’s Sarma | Mint

The Assam government’s decision to do away with the traditional two-hour adjournment of the assembly session for Jumma ki namaz has intensified the confrontation between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav.

It is noteworthy that this practice was started by the Muslim League government during colonial rule.

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The former Bihar deputy chief minister on Friday also attacked CM Himanta and called him the “Chinese version of Yogi”, making a veiled reference to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Tejashwi Yadav said, “Assam chief minister (Himanta Biswa Sarma) wants cheap popularity and wants to remain in news…(UP CM) Yogi Adityanath is using bulldozers and he (Assam CM) is stopping namaz, the country belongs to everyone, there should be peace, but these people are just spreading hatred.” Year,

Yadav said, “The Assam Chief Minister deliberately keeps doing things that disturb Muslims in an attempt to gain cheap popularity and become the “Chinese version of Yogi”. The BJP people have made Muslim brothers an easy target to spread hatred, attract the attention of Modi-Shah and polarise the society.”

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Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, who is a member of the BJP, entered the fray by criticising Yadav and accusing the RJD leader of calling the Assam chief minister a “Chinese” only because of his northeastern background.

“It seems that the Indi alliance is made up of a bunch of ignorant racists who have no clue about the history and geography of our country. First it was Sam Pitroda. Now Tejashwi Yadav is racist towards people from the Northeast,” Singh said.

“We are Indians just like the rest of the country and we don’t need to prove it. However, this racism by Indi Alliance towards the Northeast must be stopped once and for all,” he wrote on Twitter.

Singh criticized the INDI Coalition, saying, “The INDI Coalition appears to be composed of a bunch of ignorant racists who have no clue about our country’s history and geography.”

He said that earlier it was Sam Pitroda. Now Tejashwi Yadav is racist towards the people of North East.

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Earlier, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma defended the state assembly’s move to do away with the two-hour break for Jumma namaz, saying such a break is not taken in any other state assembly in India.

“The decision to abolish Jumma break in Assam was also supported by the Congress. There is no such break in Bihar or any other state assembly in the country. I am surprised that people from outside Assam are opposing it without thinking,” CM Himanta said in a post on Twitter.

Assam Assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on Friday said the decision to do away with the two-hour break was taken as time constraints had made it challenging to hold discussions on Fridays. Earlier, the assembly session on Fridays used to be adjourned at 11 am to allow Muslim members to offer namaaz. Under the new rule, the assembly will now continue its proceedings without any adjournment motivated by religious reasons.

According to the amended rule, the session of the Assam Assembly will begin at 9:30 am every day, including Fridays.

This amendment was brought to end the colonial era practice that aimed to divide the society on religious lines.

(with inputs from agencies)