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New Delhi, May 28, 2023 (PPI-OT): Bharatyia Janata Party councillors attacked councillors of Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) for not singing India’s Hindu song ‘Vande Mataram’ at the Meerut Municipal Corporation Mayor and Councillors’ swearing-in ceremony, the other day. According to Kashmir Media Service, the attack took place when the AIMIM councillors refused to sing and stand up while ‘Vande Mataram’ was being played during the ceremony.
The BJP councillors launched a full-fledged physical attack, which led to the free use of punches and blows. Meerut police, meanwhile, took to Twitter to say, “When Vande Mataram was played during the swearing-in ceremony, some AIMIM councillors remained seated and protested.” Other councillors were outraged. This resulted in sloganeering and a commotion. The police officers on the scene intervened and separated the councillors from each other,” the police tweeted in Hindi.
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