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Morning Azaan disturbed his sleep and Sonu Nigam went on a rant

Singer tweets against forced religiousness and use of loudspeakers at religious places

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Sonu Nigam

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Not everyone is having a great start to the week this Monday it seems. Sonu Nigam sure is one person who is not happy with being woken up early by loudspeakers blaring the Azaan from a mosque and his tweet has created the proverbial storm in the Indian Twitter cup.

At 5:25 am today morning, Sonu tweeted 

God bless everyone. I'm not a Muslim and I have to be woken up by the Azaan in the morning. When will this forced religiousness end in India

— Sonu Nigam (@sonunigam) April 16, 2017
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