Uttar Pradesh CM Adityanath's office repainted saffron
A section of Muslims and some opposition parties have objected to the Haj House exterior being painted saffron.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday applied a white coating on the green-and-white state Haj committee boundary wall that the administration had painted saffron hours earlier, but the end result appeared cream.
Immediate cognisance of the negligence done by the contractor in colouring and the building was taken and corrective measure as well as action against him (the contractor) was initiated, the press note said.
R.P. Singh, the secretary of the Haj committee and a government official, claimed the civil contractor who had been assigned to paint the wall had "mistakenly coloured it saffron".
"As the government faced flak from all cornor, its lone Muslim minister in the state cabinet tried to project saffron as a symbol of brightness and energy".
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After the Uttar Pradesh (UP) secretariat that houses offices of state Chief Minister and other top bureaucrats of the state was colored saffron in October past year.
The painting was carried out late on Thursday night by the Uttar Pradesh estates department and the Haj office employees were not immediately available for a reaction, Friday being a holiday.
Tanzeem Ulema-e-Hind State President Maulana Nadeemuljwadi had lodged strong protest warning the BJP government not to indulge in such acts which provoke religious sentiments of the community members. "If the BJP really considers the saffron colour as sacrosanct, it should not indulge in politicisation of the colour and indulge in blatant saffronisation", SP spokesman Sunil Singh Sajan said. Is saffron an anti-national colour? Saffron colour is being used for political purposes.
"When the first rays of the Sun fall on the Earth, it comes with saffron light", Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mohsin Raza had said. The committee also manages the UP Haj House that is located near the Lucknow airport on Kanpur road.
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