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Ahmadiyya sect forced to cancel press meet

Staff Reporter

Activists of MTKS stage demonstration against the community

--PHOTO: P.V.SIVAKUMAR

Tense moments: Armed police and youth keep vigil around the Public Gardens in a bid to thwart the Ahmadiyya sect’s proposed meeting on Sunday.

HYDERABAD: A day after the State government cancelled permission to a proposed meeting by the Ahmadiyya community at Nampally, a group of Muslim protestors on Sunday forced the community’s State chapter to cancel a press conference it planned to hold at a hotel.

The Ahamdiyya community’s Andhra Pradesh chapter invited media persons for a conference to register its protest over the ‘abrupt’ cancellation of permission to the sect’s proposed ‘All Religious’ meeting at Lalitha Kala Thoranam. Nearly 50 activists of Majlis-e-Tehfooz Khatmenabuat Safabaitalmal (MTKS) assembled outside the Fortune Katriya hotel on Somajiguda road even before media persons reached there. They raised slogans against the Ahmadiyya community alleging that it was falsely trying to associate with Islam said, “the community should not take our religion’s name. ” Mild tension prevailed as the protestors at one stage tried to barge into the hotel but the Punjagutta police rushed there and pacified them. Even as the demonstration continued, the hotel management intimated to the police that the press conference was cancelled.But the demonstrators hanged around for over 30 minutes and left the place only after confirming cancellation of the press meet with the police officials.

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