People hailing action against loudspeakers: UP minister Suresh Khanna
India Today
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet minister Suresh Khanna said that people are hailing the action taken against loudspeakers as it was being done without discrimination.
Uttar Pradesh minister Suresh Khanna said that the action against loudspeakers at religious places is not biased and such allegations are baseless. He said people hailed the decision as action was being taken without discrimination against any community.
“Earlier, the Iftari time would have to be announced over loudspeakers. But that is no longer needed. At Gorakhnath temple also, the sound of the loudspeaker was reduced to conform to the rules,” he said.
Commenting on the condition of Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, Khanna said: “People are happier than before in Jammu and Kashmir. They are better connected and the pace of development has doubled there.”
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“The people of Kashmir welcome the development plans. Only a handful few, who used to get the benefits of the previous system are opposing it today,” he said.
On the action against loudspeakers, he said “There is a time for everything, people like the action being taken without discrimination.”
The Uttar Pradesh Home Department had earlier instructed the police to prepare a report on illegal loudspeakers and those not conforming to sound-limit norms at religious places. These loudspeakers will be removed. After UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that the sound from loudspeakers at religious places should not be heard outside the premises, the volume of loudspeakers at 17,000 religious sites in the state has been lowered.
