Eid-e-Milad: In a big replace, the Maharashtra authorities has introduced the rescheduling of the Eid-e-Milad vacation in Mumbai from September 16 to September 18. This choice, communicated by an official notification on Friday, goals to make sure concord between overlapping celebrations of Ganpati immersion and Eid-e-Milad.
This choice follows requests from Muslim MLAs and organisations, who deliberate to carry Eid-e-Milad processions on September 18 to keep away from conflicts with Ganpati immersion ceremonies. The notification acknowledged, “Among the many 24 public holidays notified by the State Authorities, the Eid-e-Milad vacation is indicated on Monday, September 16, 2024. Eid-e-Milad, a non secular pageant of Muslims, is broadly celebrated by the Muslim group on a big scale. A procession program is organised on this event.
On Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, since there may be the Hindu pageant of Anant Chaturdashi, to keep up peace and social concord between the 2 communities, the Muslim Group has determined to organise the procession program on Wednesday, 18th September, 2024. Due to this fact, the general public vacation of Eid-e-Milad is being declared on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 as an alternative of Monday, September 16, 2024.”
The notification additionally talked about that outdoors Mumbai Metropolis and Mumbai Suburbs, district collectors will determine whether or not to keep up the vacation on September 16 or reschedule it to September 18, primarily based on native procession plans. The change was made as per the notification to “keep peace and social concord” between the 2 communities throughout these overlapping festivals. Eid-e-Milad marks the delivery of Prophet Muhammad Muslims internationally take part in processions throughout the celebration.
