A group of Hindutva organisations in Haryana’s Gurugram city on Tuesday issued an ultimatum, asserting that they would not allow Muslims to offer namaz at public spaces if the administration did not take any action in the matter, The Indian Express reported.

Earlier on Tuesday, a five-member delegation of the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti – an umbrella body of 22 Hindutva organisations – met the Gurugram deputy commissioner. They submitted a memorandum requesting the district administration to stop Muslims from offering namaz at public places on Fridays.

“We are giving a polite warning...We won’t submit more memorandums,” Mahavir Bhardwaj, Haryana unit chief of Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti told reporters. “It will then be the responsibility of the administration to maintain peace, not ours. We are ready for lathis, we are ready to go to jail...But this will not be tolerated.”

Hindutva organisations have been protesting the offering of namaz in Gurugram’s Sector 47 for over a month now, according to The Hindu.

Last Friday, they held a protest and disrupted the offering of namaz in the city’s Sector 12A and Sector 47 localities. Demonstrators shouted “Jai Shri Ram” and other slogans during the namaz.

The protestors claimed that offering namaz in public spaces could lead to law and order problems. They also claimed that the designated area for prayers in Sector 47 was on a private land and could not be encroached upon.

In the memorandum submitted on Tuesday, the Hindutva organisations demanded an immediate ban on offering namaaz. They threatened to launch an agitation across Haryana if no action is taken.

“It is requested that it was unanimously decided by the groups of two religious communities and the top political leaders in a meeting with the district administration in 2018 that people belonging to any religion or community would not use the public spaces,” the memorandu stated, according to The Hindu.

Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg said that the district administration was taking stock of the situation.

“The duty magistrates and the police have been accordingly briefed,” he added. “We will ensure that communal harmony is not disturbed.”

Altaf Ahmad, a local leader of the Muslim community, appealed to the state government to allocate land for building mosques for offering namaz.

“Since the Muslim community has not been given enough land to build mosques in Gurugram, we are forced to offer jumma namaz in the open,” he told The Hindu.