Mumbai, Mar 16: AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan was today suspended from Maharashtra Assembly for refusing to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' with legislators cutting across party lines pressing for action against him through a unanimous resolution.
Pathan, who represents Byculla seat in South Mumbai, will not be allowed to attend the proceedings of the House till the end of ongoing Budget session.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Girish Bapat said, "Pathan was suspended from Assembly for showing disrespect to national heroes and refusal to say Bharat Mata ki Jai."
It all began when All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLA from Aurangabad, Imtiaz Jaleel, was speaking on the debate on the Governor's address in the Assembly.
Jaleel said the government should not spend taxpayers' money on building memorials of 'great personalities'.
A Shiv Sena MLA interjected, saying Jaleel's party leader Asaduddin Owaisi had recently stated he will not chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.
To this, Pathan said, "We will say 'Jai Hind' but not 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'. There cannot be compulsion on saying 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'. The Constitution does not say this."
Immediately after his remarks, MLAs from ruling BJP and Shiv Sena and other Opposition parties including Congress and NCP demanded suspension of AIMIM legislators from the House.
Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse said the AIMIM MLAs should apologise but his suggestion was shot down by angry members of the House, who, setting aside political differences, sought their suspension.
Bapat said he will table a resolution seeking the approval of the House for suspension of AIMIM MLAs, after which it was adjourned for 10 minutes. It was again adjourned thrice amid noisy scenes.
When the proceedings resumed, Minister of State for Home Ranjit Patil tabled the resolution, seeking suspension of Pathan, which was approved unanimously.
"Pathan has misused freedom of speech, violated Parliamentary traditions and insulted 'Bharat Mata (Mother India)," the minister said.
The resolution was tabled in keeping with the sentiments of the House, he added. "During his suspension period, Pathan won't be able to attend House proceedings and won't be allowed near Vidhan Bhawan premises," Patil said.
Speaker Haribhau Bagade informed the House that the resolution was adopted unanimously. AIMIM has expressed its opposition to chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' as proposed by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who had said that the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India.
Owaisi had said he did not want to chant that slogan. "What are you going to do, Bhagwat sahab. I won't utter that (slogan) even if you put a knife to my throat. Nowhere in the Constitution it says that one should say: 'Bharat Mata ki Jai," Owaisi had said addressing a public rally in Udgir tehsil of Latur district on March 13. His comments had evoked strong reactions from the Shiv Sena and BJP.
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Yere gavu e kirkiri cow matha, India matha , chaddi jarnde. First of all confirm which is your mother then jai...
Dear Cheddis, Please take care of your mother who gave birth to YOU. MLA Waris did the right thing by opposing to build memorial of great person from our tax payers money. instead of Pending the money on the society ... This stupids people are spending in statue which is of no use and life less...
The leaders should look for those who have life & not spend on lifeless object. when people are living in poverty
today RSS will tell us to say bharath is ur mata, tomorrow cow is mata and then God, hence we can only say Jai Hind,,,,,,,,,,,,,
one anti national third class loafer who is born to a bitch in saudi ,shouting anti india slogan here ... CD Is allowing this type of antin india slogan... which shows menrtality of muslims and shows how irresponsible cd is .. ... 9 likes proves there are 9 bastards who are namak haram.... jai sri ram... we will soon teach these bastards a wonderful lesson ....jai bharat mata ... jai ho benjamin netanyahu ... jai narendra modi ...bharath mata na kalli walli andu abuse maadthiro curious anno halka soole magane ,if u r born to ur father come to india and say this ... namak haram
Community which forget their own Maatha & create 100's of Maatha's to gain political power.... RSS is terrorist organisation... they act as nationalists... shame on you...
Lots of poor people are suffering from no food, no water & shelter... help them & show your humanity... Instead you try to disturb peace & harmony between communities.... All secular hindu, muslim & christians should unite together to fight against this acting nationalist terror organisations.... we should create brotherhood among different communities...
We can’t even say Saudia Mata Ki Jai or Afghan Mata Ki Jai or Bhoomi Mata Ki Jai. Can RSS terrorist explain us who is that Bharat Mata?.....Jai Hind
To save the situation the MLA could have said Jai Hind ....
WHY NO ACTION ON SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR FOR CHANTING PAKISTAN ZINDABAD???? WHERE ARE THOSE PRO CHADDIS IN THE MAHA ASSEMBLY ??? AND NOW HERE IN CD WHY DONT YOU CRITICIZE TO SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR???? IS THIS NOT ANTI NATIONAL???? THERE ARE SO MANY EXAMPLE TO SAY THAT RSS IS NOT AN INDIAN IT IS THE FIRST PART OF ISIS, BECOZ RSS WAS EXISTS BEFORE ISIS.
We do not Say ''MATHA'' a imaginary word created by RSS idelogists ....we die but will not say it.....
Who ever want to say it let them first go and hoist INDIAN National Flag in Nagpur headquarters which is also in INDIA `
Aur kitni maa hey re thum logon ko.. Jay Hind..
Curious Khobar...
Shame on you...
shut your....
chaddi people have so many matha , cow, india etc...
bharath maataa ki kalli walli
we say only Jai Hind, we love india, we dont want to teach Rss people, we Never Say Bharat Mataki, .....
Many of RSS members have become terrorists after saying it....what is the big deal....as long as you love your country it does not really matter if he says or not....Muslims love India more than non muslims...they are ready to give life for it....Let RSS hoist Indian flag right in front of its Headquarter....then we can say they are patriots....until such time we cant consider them at all....
Nobody have the right to force anyone to do anything.
This is individual's right and choice to do so if he/she feels comfortable with it.
There may be no harm in telling Bharat Mataki Jai, but it should not be by force. It is his choice.
This is not constitutional or religious duty to say that.
However not telling is not at all a crime.
When individual enforces his own idea, then real obligatory duty also fails.
May God give wisdom to these people.
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