Muslim Student Among Petitioners Who Seek Supreme Court Recall Rath Yatra Decision
The yatra is attended by means of lakhs of other people from internationally (Report)
Bhubaneswar:
A 19-year-old Muslim scholar from Odisha’s Nayagarh district is likely one of the 21 individuals and organisations who’ve moved the Excellent Court docket in the hunt for recall of its order staying the historical Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra this 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Excellent Court docket had on June 18 stated that within the passion of public well being and protection of voters, this 12 months’s rath yatra, which used to be scheduled for June 23, at Puri in Odisha can’t be allowed and “Lord Jagannath would possibly not forgive us if we permit” it.
The yatra is attended by means of lakhs of other people from internationally.
Aftab Hossen, who moved the courtroom over the rath yatra, is a final-year BA economics scholar on the Nayagarh Self sufficient School and is now being known as the second one Salabega of the state on social media.
Salabega used to be a Muslim guy and a perfect devotee of Lord Jagannath.
All through the 3 kilometre yatra from the primary shrine to the Gundicha Temple, the lord’s chariot stops for some time close to the grave of Salabega positioned at the Grand Highway as a mark of appreciate.
Salabega, who used to be the son of a Mughal subedar, occupies a unique position some of the devotional poets of Odisha. He lived within the first part of the 17th century.
Mr Hossen stated he has been influenced by means of Lord Jagannath since his formative years and that his past due grandfather Multab Khan used to be additionally a devotee.
The 19-year-old has filed an intervention software prior to the Excellent Court docket thru his suggest PK Mohapatra.
Mr Hossen stated his grandfather had built a Trinath (Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar) temple at Itamati in 1960.
He stated that he has additionally learn a number of books on Lord Jagannath and advanced devotion in opposition to the “Lord of the Universe”. Mr Hossen’s father Imdad Hussain, mom Rashida Begum and more youthful brother Anmol have by no means adversarial him worshipping the idol of Jagannath.
“I’ve no longer visited the temple as I’m really not allowed. I consider that I’m a human being and there may be one author within the universe,” he stated.
With nice self assurance, Mr Hossen stated that “the highest courtroom will permit preserving the rath yatra as soon as it will get to grasp the truth that the managing committee is in favour of undertaking it on a restricted scale within the absence of devotees in view of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
