No revised guidelines, follow MHA guidelines to offer prayers from home this Eid-ul-Adha, says Nawab Malik

The upset minority leaders from ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi have put forth their request with the CM Thackeray asking to relax transportation of goats while entering the state border

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Mumbai: It seems the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has decided not to issue fresh guidelines for Bakri-Eid celebrations under pandemic crisis of coronavirus. The leaders of muslim community have requested CM Thackeray to allow easy and hassle free transportation of goats at the state borders. 

There are complaints that the vehicle ferrying are stuffed with goats and are not allowed at the check posts to enter in the state or in Mumbai. Due to which people are upset as the goats used for sacrifice on the day are for hours on ends dumped in the vehicles and leading to suffocation and are falling sick. 

The muslim community leaders of the ruling MahaVikas Aghadi  in a meeting with Sharad Pawar chief NCP recently raised their concern over guidelines issued over Bakri-Eid. 

Nawab Malik the Minister for Minority Affairs while talking to TheNews21 told that the state government will not issue any fresh guidelines for the celebration of Islamic religion festival, Eid-ul-Adha.  He also explained that the rules laid down by the Union Home Ministry will be followed. 

“We have requested the CM Thackeray to ease the transportation of vehicles ferrying goats for sacrifice on the day of the festival. However so far there are no fresh guidelines issued within the state for the celebration of Bakri-Eid on August 1 .All the muslim brethren are asked to follow the guidelines issued by the Union Home Ministry as in -they can offer prayers from home not in mosques, also asked to book the goat for sacrifice either online or via phone, “said Malik..

The Minority Minister Malik also added that as per the guidelines by the Union Home Ministry it is difficult to observe symbolic sacrifice of goats. “We have appealed people from the community to purchase only one goat per family.” 

Recently the muslim community leaders Abu Asim Azmi, Amin Patel, Arif Nasim Khan, Rais Shaikh and Nawab Malik had met Sharad Pawar, NCP Chief and Anil Deshmukh the state Home Minister and requested to issue fresh guidelines as lot of confusion over the symbolic slaughtering of goat had cropped after the guidelines by the Union Home Ministry. 

Amin Patel MLA from Congress said, “This Eid-ul-Adha people have been asked to offer their prayers from home. We have asked the government on easy transportation of vehicles ferrying goats. The open slaughtering houses like Deonar are banned for public keeping in mind contagious coronavirus disease.”

However Ejaz Deshmukh President of state unit cell of Bharatiya Janata Party said, “The Muslim community leaders in the state have failed to satisfy people. They have not cleared people about symbolic sacrifice of goats and online purchase of the same. People have been booking and ordering however the police at check-points are not allowing vehicles to enter the state. Hours and hours the goats are stuffed in vehicles leading to which they are dying on roads itself. “

Guidelines of the state government

The state government in the last week issued a guideline for celebrating festival Eid -ul-Adha on July 31 and August 1amidst lockdown. 

The guidelines say that people have to offer namaz from their homes instead of mosques and can purchase goat either online or over the phone for sacrificial purpose. Animal sacrifice which is a ritual followed on the day should be preferably symbolic.