By TCN News,
New Delhi: Responding to a proposal by BJP President Nitin Gadkari that Muslims should give up their claim on Babri Masjid, Mushawarat termed the proposal “meaningless” and said that that national interest demands that both sides await the final judicial verdict and accept it without complain.
Newly elected President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) Syed Shahabuddin in a statement said that Gadkari being new to the job of the president of the BJP is not familiar with the discussions taken place between Hindus and Muslims since 1986 on the issue of Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi.
Since 1986, and even after 1992, there were several rounds of negotiations with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, the last at the highest level of the Shankaracharya, and all those negotiations failed because the Hindu side insisted on taking the Babari Masjid site and building a Mandir thereon and rejected several compromises offered by the Muslim side, including the construction of Mandir with Ram Chamber as the base next to the Babari Masjid. His suggestion is not new. The VHP and the BJP have both offered to build a ‘magnificent masjid outside Ayodhya’ if the Muslim community surrenders the Babari Masjid & its site. Since then, in total defiance of the law, the BJP organized ‘Kar Seva’, demolished the Babari Masjid and built a makeshift temple covering most of the Masjid.
The Supreme Court ruled in October, 1994 that the Special Bench of the Allahabad High Court should resume hearings on title to the Babari Masjid site & also laid down a road map for the construction of both a Masjid and a Mandir near each other within the Acquired Area. The title suit hearing is nearing completion. The Muslim community at various levels has reiterated its willingness to accept the final judicial verdict, whatever it be. Unfortunately, no leader of the BJP or VHP or the Ramjanmabhumi Nyas has made a parallel commitment to the rule of Law.
Shahabuddin also mentioned that according to the tenets of Islam it is the site consecrated for worship which constitutes the essential Masjid and not the structure. Therefore, even after the Demolition the Masjid continues to exist.
Mushawarat is umbrella body of the Indian Muslim organizations.
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