Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata PArty (BJP) Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh on Wednesday, April 17, took out the Sri Ram Navami Shobha Yatra from Akashpuri Hanuman Temple Dhoolpet and sang Islamophobic songs during the course of the rally. The legislator has been doing this habitually every year in spite of being booked by the police for hate speech.
Standing atop a vehicle fitted with a DJ music system, Raja Singh led the rally bound for Hanuman Vyamshala Koti. The police had rejected the application of Raja Singh and denied him permission to take out the rally. However, he still went ahead and it is to be seen what action is taken.
The MLA, on Tuesday, had already said he would take out the rally “whatever it may come.” He has been taking out the Sri Ram Navami Rally from 2017, much before the Bhagyanagar Sri Ramnavami Committee began it.
Surrounded by half a dozen bodyguards carrying weapons, Raja Singh at different points in the rally route met the people and addressed the gatherings.
He sang a new song ‘Angar hai hum, Toofan hai hum. Sunlo re sunlo. Pakistani mulloh, Bharat se bhaganeh ayeh hai hum,” while his old song “Baap toh baap rehenga“, was played on the DJs along the procession route. The BJP MLA has done the same in the past as well,
During the yatra, Raja Singh asked the devotees to organize a ‘recitation of Hanuman Chalisa’, a program in all temples on Tuesday or Saturday. “We will be united when there is a gathering and all of us assemble in local temples. All of us should start doing it,” he said.
The main procession that started from Seetharambagh temple will move through Asifnagar, Mangalhat, Dhoolpet, Jumerat Bazar, Begum Bazaar, Siddiamber Bazar, Gowliguda, Koti, Sultan Bazaar and end at Hanuman Vyamshala.
The police force is deployed in large numbers and higher officers are supervising the movement of the Rapid Action Force and other anti-riot units.
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