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"Height of appeasement politics": Pralhad Joshi hits back at Tejashwi Yada
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
"Is Assembly, Rajya Sabha or Lok Sabha, the place for offering Namaaz? This is the height of appeasement politics...I am a minister and worship some god or goddess on Thursday, then give me rest on Thursday. Does the country run like this? What kind of a method is this, isn't this foolish?"
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'CM Himanta Biswa wants cheap popularity': Tejashwi Yadav on ending Jumma
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
"Assam Chief Minister (Himanta Biswa Sarma) wants cheap popularity and wants to remain in the news," Yadav said.
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"Surprised people are opposing it without thinking": Assam CM Himanta on e
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday defended the state assembly's decision to end the 2-hour break for Jumma prayers, saying that no other state assembly in India has a similar break.
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People of Assam won't support...: RJD MP Manoj Jha assails CM Sarma after
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Speaking on the decision, CM Himanta Biswa said that Hindu and Muslim MLAs together sat and unanimously took the decision that they would work during this period also.
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"No one has right to attack religious beliefs": NDA ally JDU criticises As
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Assam assembly ended the practice of a two-hour adjournment for Jumma Prayers, every Friday that was introduced by Saadulah's Muslim League government in colonial Assam.
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"Hindu, Muslim MLAs sat together and took unanimous decision": Assam CM on
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The state assembly ended the practice of a two-hour adjournment for Jumma Prayers, every Friday that was introduced by Saadulah's Muslim League government in colonial Assam.
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"Unconstitutional": AIMIM leader Waris Pathan on Assam Assembly ending 2-h
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Assam Legislative Assembly on August 30 officially amended the rule providing two hours of Jumma break to facilitate Muslim legislators to offer Friday prayers.
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Not my decision, it is Assembly's, says Assam CM Sarma as ending Jumma bre
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma affirmed that the decision to scrap the practice of 2-hour adjournment for Jumma prayers in the state legislative assembly was a collective decision.
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"Assam CM wants cheap popularity": RJD's Tejashwi Yadav on Assam Assembly
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav hit out at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after the Assam Assembly on Friday decided to end the practice of two-hour adjournment for Jumma prayers.
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"Historic decision": BJP's Taranga Gogoi after Assam Assembly ends practic
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
After the Assam legislative assembly decided to end the practice of a two-hour Jumma break, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Taranga Gogoi dubbed it as "historic" and said that India is a secular country.
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"Decision taken to prioritise productivity": Assam CM Sarma after assembly
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Following the decision of Assam Assembly to scrap the rules that facilitated Muslim members, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said that the decision was taken to prioritise the productivity of the assembly.
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Assam Assembly ends practice of two-hour Jumma break, running since 1937
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The order stated that the amendment was done to scrap the colonial practice which aimed at dividing the society on a religious basis.
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