VHP threatens state-wide agitation if Maulana Mehdi Hasan is not booked

Ahmedabad, 21 September 2014

Vishwa Hindu Parishad(VHP) today threatened a state-wide agitation if Maulana Mehdi Hasan is not arrested by police for his anti-Hindu remarks.

VHP workers today went to file complaint against Maulana Mehdi Hasan in Ahmedabad’s Ranip police station. However police refused to take complaint and just accepted an application. Protesting police’s refusal to file complaint VHP workers sat on floor and started Ram dhoon.

Similarly, Shiv Sena workers went to Gomtipur police station to file complaint, but even in this case, police only accepted application.

However in Nadiad(West) police station, a complaint has been filed against Mehndi Hasan.

According to a news report, Maulana Mehdi Hasan told media in Rustampura village on 20th September that ‘Garba is not religious festival but it is an occassion of entertainment. Actors, drunkerds and those who commit rape come to such festival and run away with girls.’

According to a report, Maulana Mehdi Hasan suggested that Navratri festival celebration should be discontinued.
Maulana Mehdi Hasan
said that Garba is not religious festival but a festival of demons(rakshasha). Garba festival is joined by Rakshashas.

Maulana Mehdi Hasan is same maulana who offered skull cap to then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and when Modi refused he made an international issue out of it. Controversial Maulana is based at Thasra taluka in Kheda district.