Loudspeaker Row Reaches MP As Temple Starts Playing Hanuman Chalisa & Ramdhun 5 Times A Day

A local organisation by the name of Hindvi Swaraj had called for playing Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun five times a day at the Khedapati Hanuman temple located in the Chandrabhaga area.

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New Delhi: The loudspeaker row seems to be spreading outside Maharashtra as a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore has started playing Hanuman Chalisa twice and ‘Ramdhun’ thrice a day (a total of five times a day). Meanwhile, the local administration has urged the different stakeholders to maintain peace and communal harmony, news agency PTI reported. 

A local organisation by the name of Hindvi Swaraj had called for playing Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun five times a day at the Khedapati Hanuman temple located in the Chandrabhaga area.

Amit Pandey, the head of the organisation and a lawyer by profession, told PTI on Monday, “The Hanuman Chalisa is being played on loudspeakers in this old temple at sunrise and sunset. Ramdhun is being played on loudspeakers in the temple three times during the day."

Pandey further added that in the toast three months, local lawyers had given written complaints to various police stations in the city, citing existing regulations, highlighting that loudspeakers were being played at high decibels at mosques causing inconveniences to people, especially children and senior citizens. 

He claimed that the police or the district administration did not take proper steps to address the issue. 

He further said, “We have identified 25 temples in the city where we are planning to play the Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun on loudspeakers five times a day." 

Meanwhile, District Collector Manish Singh said that maintaining peace is the administration’s top priority and called for talks among the concerned parties to resolve the issues.

“The issue of loudspeakers at religious places should be resolved by dialogue with each other and there should be no communal tension. Maintaining peace in the city is our prime responsibility," he said.

Talking about complaints mentioned by Pandey, the IAS officer said, "After we spoke to the managing committees of different mosques regarding these complaints, the volume of the loudspeakers installed there has been reduced." 

Meanwhile, Maharashtra government has urged the centre to come up with a common rule for the use of loudspeakers as different communities cannot be treated differently.