The state government has put the onus of implementing a policy on loudspeakers on the Centre. After an all-party meeting on Monday, it said that since the Supreme Court has issued directives in 2005 which were applicable to the entire country, it would petition the Narendra Modi government through an all-party delegation to have a national policy on the use of loudspeakers for religious and other purposes.

Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil after the all-party meeting said that there was no legal provision for the state to install or remove loudspeakers (from mosques and other places). “It is important that those who install and use loudspeakers take care,” he said, adding that the state would issue fresh guidelines based on the SC directives, though some government resolutions and circulars about it were issued between 2015 and 2017 following the orders of the SC and other courts.