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India: Muslims barred from Friday prayer sites in India’s Gurgaon
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NEW DELHI, 06 November 2021, (TON): Every Friday, Najis Mohammad would offer his afternoon prayers at a public ground near his barber shop in Gurugram, still popular by its old name Gurgaon – a satellite city on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi.
He told Al Jazeera “this Friday, however, he has no place to go. “Today, I am not sure if I can offer namaz anywhere.”
Reason: right-wing Hindu groups had erected large tents to perform a religious function at the same ground in the city’s Sector 12A area Nazim prayed at every Friday.
The event was attended by a number of politicians and Hindu priests, including Kapil Mishra, who belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Mishra, 40, is accused of instigating religious violence in New Delhi last year – the worst the city had seen in decades – in which 53 people, most of them Muslims, were killed.
GurgaonPreparations being made for the Hindu event at the public ground in Gurugram on Friday.
Permission for Muslim prayers revoked
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