Ayodhya is in position for the rite of laying the first stone of the Ram Temple on August 5. Wednesday’s “Bhoomi Pujan” will be the culmination of a dispute that lasted only 166 years.
The controversy over the temple began in 1853. After the mosque was built, Hindus claimed that the position where the mosque had been built was in the past the temple, which had been demolished to build the mosque. On December 6, 1992, thousands of “kar sevaks” accumulated in Ayodhya and demolished the disputed design that caused network unrest across the country.
Places of Worship Act 1991 (Special Provisions):
Although the Supreme Court, in last year’s Ram Temple verdict, ruled that the Places of Worship Act of 1991 (special provisions) would be upheld, a statement was recently filed through a Hindu organization challenging a provision of a 1991 law. The petition was filed with the aim of paving the way for litigation to devout sites other than Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
The law establishes the prestige of the “religious character” of sacred structures as it existed on August 15, 1947.
On November 9, last year, the Supreme Court, in a 5-0 unanimous verdict, had supported the structure of a Ram Temple through acceptance as true at the disputed site of Ayodhya, where Babri Masjid was once demolished and ruled that an option five – the acre plot deserves to be discovered for a mosque in the Hindu holy city.
The five-judge panel, then led by the president of India’s Supreme Court, Ranjan Gogoi, addressed the 1991 law and declared that the law is a legislative tool designed to protect the secular characteristics of Indian politics, which is one of the basic features of the Constitution.
The DIP filed through Mahasangh applied to claim Article Four of the 1991 Act as ultra vires, that is, beyond its legal or unconstitutional authority.
Ayodhya a sirf jhanki hai, Kasi, Mathura baaki hai:
These claims about “disputed sites” go beyond Ayodhya and are also reflected in slogans such as “Ayodhya to sirf jhanki hai, Kasi, Mathura baaki hai” (Ayodhya is an innenable teaser, Kasi and Mathura are still left).
On August 3, a member of Shri Ramjanmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust Parmanand Giri Maharaj said that after the siege of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, he eagerly awaited the structure of Mathura Krishna Janmabhoomi and Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
He said the mosques at those sites were built as an “insult inflicted on the Hindus” through the invaders and had to pass through.
“We are waiting for Ram Lalla to take a seat. So far, our request was Ayodhya, Mathura, Vishwanath teeno lenge ek saath (take all 3 at a time). Ek kaam hua hai Ram Lalla ka, hamein asha uske liye andolan nahi karna padega (we control to obtain a temple in Ram Lalla, possibly we would not have to issue a motion for the other two temples)”, Giri said.
Gyanvapi Mosque (Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh):
After obtaining an acceptable ideal court verdict on Ram Temple in Ayodhya, vishwa Hindu Paris moved to Gyanvapi Mosque and Krishna Temple in Mathura.
The VHP had convened an assembly in February to press the application and expand a strategy at the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi.
The Gyanvapi Mosque stores a perimeter wall with Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
A civil court in Varanasi will begin hearing the case of the Gyanvapi-Masjid Temple complex from February 17.
The VHP, which in the past had claimed that there was no plan to deal with the Kashi and Mathura cases, has now begun to seek them, emboldened by the Supreme Court verdict in the Ramjanmabhoomi Babri Mosque case.
The VHP needs to lose the Gyanvapi facilities of the mosque near the temple.
The Hindu of the Temple-Masjid complex in Gyanvapi requested an archaeological excavation on the premises of Varanasi Temple.
The Gyanvapi Mosque, which borders Kashi Vishwanath Temple, built through Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1669 after allegedly demolishing a Hindu temple.
Hindus claim that the original Vishwanath temple existed at the site of the supposed demolition. An application filed in the District Court of Varanasi in 1991 for ownership of the disputed site. The Muslim aspect is also part of the case.
Shahi Idgah Mosque (Mathura, Uttar Pradesh):
As he calls for the demolition of the Babri Mosque, similar appeals were made about Shahi Idgah next to Krishnabhhoomi, in addition to the Gyanvapi Mosque next to Kashi Viswanath Temple. Shahi Idgah is in Mathura, west of the top.
Mathura is believed to be the birthplace of the Hindu deity Lord Krishna.
It is claimed that the temples were destroyed several times in history, the last through the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1670 who destroyed the temple and erected the Eidgah there.
The Kamal Maula Mosque in Madhya Pradesh, which is located on the disputed grounds of Bhojshala, a former Hindu shrine, is one of the “disputed sites”.
Another such claim for the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi. In 2018, Hindu Mahasabha demanded that the entire complex be committed to the Hindu god Vishnu.
(With contributions from PTI and IANS)