Mounesh Vishwakarma

Daijiworld Media Network – Bantwal (MS/dv)

Bantwal, Feb 19: Members of Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV), a right wing organisation have accused that an Islam religious discourse was conducted in an educational workshop by an organization at an auditorium in Adyanadka.

Some Hindu students from Janata High School, who participated in the workshop, informed the Hindu organisation that the organisers of the workshop Nusratul Islamic Young Men's Association (NIYA) were giving a religious discourse on Islam. The members of the Hindu organisation went to the auditorium and asked Hindu students to come out of the workshop.

Later, the Hindu organisation filed a complaint in Vittal police station against the organisers of the workshop, in which they have accused that the organisers were inciting communal feelings. They have also demanded action against the principal of the Janata High School for sending the students to the workshop. 

Hundreds of Hindutva factionists throng police station

The Hindutva leaders and BJP workers who thronged the Vittal police station on Saturday night demanded that Inspector H E Nagaraj take severe action against the principal who, they alleged, was misleading students by sending them to a workshop.

HJV eader Arun Puthila, Vittal Maahashakthie Kendra president Arun Vittal, Jayanand Ujiremar Shrikrishna Vittal, Akhay Rajaputh, Ganesh Adyanadkada, Hariprasad Yadav, Kepu gram panchayath president Yashaswini Shastri, former president Tharanath Alva, Purshotham Kallangalla, Vice president Raghava Maniyani, and others were present.

Hundreds of Hindutva activists thronged the front premise of the police station. As MLA Sanjeev Matandoor did not visit the spot, the issue was communicated to him over phone. In response, he said that the issue would be brought to the notice of the deputy commissioner.

Reacting to the issue, the programme organizer from NIYA said that it was purely a workshop on education and there was no other intention.

SDPI condemns HJV's act

Bantwal constituency SDPI candidate Ilayas Mohammed Tumbe said that several Hindu activists had intervened in the educational workshop organised by a private institution with a false perception. SDPI severely condemns this, he said.

"A social organisation Nusrathul Islamic Young Mens Association for the moral and academic development of students had organized a workshop. The activists of Sangha Parivar and associated Hindutva factions framed allegations with a false perception that Islam is being taught in the workshop. They disrupted the workshop. Just because the organisers have an Islamic name, the Hindutva outfits ruined the workshop out of hatred and jealousy."

The SDPI demanded that the police department take the issue seriously.