Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) Three minority Trinamool Congress-turned-National Citizens’ Party of India (NCPI) Lok Sabha members from minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Thursday, sought Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s intervention on two crucial issues in West Bengal.

While the first issue is about reports of loudspeakers and microphones being removed from different mosques in Murshidabad district, the second issue is delayed tribunal decisions on the large number of voters whose names were deleted in the district following the special intensive revision (SIR) in the state conducted earlier this year.

The three TMC-turned-NCPI Lok Sabha members, who wrote a letter to the Home Minister on these two issues, are Khalilur Rahaman from Jangipur constituency, Abu Taher Khan from Murshidabad constituency and Yusuf Pathan from Baharampur constituency, who is a cricketer-turned politician.

“Reports indicate that police authorities are directing mosques to remove microphones/loudspeakers. While fully respecting the law and the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s directions on noise regulations, I request that appropriate instructions be issued to ensure fair, uniform, and sensitive implementation without hurting religious sentiments,” the letter to the Union Home Minister read.

On the second issue, the three TMC-turned-NCPI Lok Sabha members have claimed that since a large number of “genuine” voters, whose names were deleted from the electoral roll in the course of the SIR exercise earlier this year, are still awaiting tribunal decisions, the delay was causing difficulties in passport verification, land registration and access to Government welfare schemes.

They have requested the HM Amit Shah’s intervention in fast-tracking all pending genuine cases awaiting tribunal decisions and ensure competition of the process by the end of this year.

The three MPs have also requested the Home Minister to consider additional tribunals, if necessary, in the matter and also create a grievance-monitoring mechanism on this count. According to them, the government should ensure that the “affected genuine citizens” are not denied essential public services while their cases are pending at the tribunals.

–IANS

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