On Friday, Could 26, councillors of Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) celebration and BJP traded blows on the Meerut Municipal Company Mayor and Councillors’ swearing-in ceremony. The scuffle allegedly broke out after AIMIM celebration councillors raised an objection to India’s nationwide tune ‘Vande Mataram’.

Reportedly, the AIMIM councillors refused to sing and arise whereas India’s Nationwide tune ‘Vande Mataram’ was being performed throughout the ceremony.

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The dispute escalated from a verbal skirmish to a full-fledged bodily brawl, with members of each events throwing punches and blows at one another.

BJP chief and Rajya Sabha member Laxmikant Vajpayee who was current throughout the ceremony alleged that the matter escalated after the AIMIM councillors made some objectionable feedback.

Meerut police, in the meantime, have taken to Twitter to tell concerning the incident. “When Vande Mataram was performed throughout the swearing-in ceremony, some AIMIM councillors remained seated and protested.” Different councillors have been outraged. This resulted in sloganeering and a commotion. The law enforcement officials on the scene intervened and separated the councillors from one another,” the police tweeted in Hindi.

शपथ ग्रहण समारोह में वंदे मातरम शुरू होने पर कुछ AIMIM के पार्षद बैठे रहे और उन्होंने विरोध किया। जिसका विरोध अन्य पार्षदों ने किया।मौके पर नारेबाजी और हंगामा होने पर मौके पर मौजूद पुलिस द्वारा दोनों पक्षों को अलग किया गया।

— MEERUT POLICE (@meerutpolice) May 26, 2023

The incident occurred on Friday on the Subhash Chandra Bose Auditorium of Chaudhary Charan Singh College in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, when the newly elected mayor and councillors have been being sworn in. Throughout the ceremony, the BJP councillors began singing the nationwide tune (Vande Mataram).

The AIMIM councillors objected to the singing of the Nationwide Track. They neither sang the nationwide tune nor arise in reverence, which irritated the BJP members. The BJP members objected to this behaviour. Members of each events obtained right into a verbal spat, thereafter. Inside no time, the verbal altercation devolved into an all-out bodily altercation.

The police intervened and requested the AIMIM councillors to go away the auditorium. AIMIM councillors obtained much more agitated on account of this. Collector Deepak Meena rushed to the venue to pacify the AIMIM members. The AIMIM councillors have been, nevertheless, so indignant that they boycotted the swearing-in ceremony and walked away with out taking the oath.

The commissioner, in the meantime, administered the oath to the mayor and by some means accomplished the formalities of the ceremony within the midst of the following ruckus.

It could be recalled that in 2021, AIMIM MLA Akhtarul Iman, who had raised objections to ‘Hindustan’ written in his affidavit throughout the oath-taking ceremony of the seventeenth state meeting of Bihar, had as soon as once more courted controversy after he raised an objection to India’s nationwide tune ‘Vande Mataram’. Iman, who was additionally the Bihar State president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen celebration then, had refused to sing the Nationwide tune ‘Vande Mataram’ over the past day of the Bihar meeting winter session, calling it ‘in opposition to his religion and faith’.

Chatting with the media, the AIMIM Bihar president questioned why it was essential to sing the nationwide tune and mentioned that whereas he had nothing in opposition to singing the nationwide tune, saying ‘Vande Mataram’ was in opposition to his faith.