The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Executive Member Qasim Rasool Ilyas spoke to ESHA ROY over the controversy surrounding the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and the continuing case in a court docket. Excerpts from an interview:
What is the AIMPLB’s stand on the Gyanvapi mosque controversy?
We have a really clear stand on the matter. Once the Places of Worship Act got here into being in 1991, there’s merely no house for controversy concerning anyplace of worship. It had been unanimously determined and handed in Parliament, with even the assist of the BJP, that after Babri Masjid, such issues can be put to relaxation… this can be very disheartening that the decrease court docket gave permission for the survey…
Starting with Gyanvapi, now different mosques within the nation appear to be embroiled in the same controversy. Do you suppose these controversies are politically motivated?
This has occurred over the past couple of days. A Hindu group in Karnataka has now claimed that the Masjid-e-Ala in Srirangapatna in Mandya district was a Hanuman temple and they need to be allowed to worship there. Similar controversies have been created across the Neem Masjid in Madhya Pradesh, the Idgah in Mathura, and now even the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, the place surveys are being demanded. The BJP-RSS commune has alleged that there are 30,000 mosques within the nation which were constructed by razing temples… such points may be carried on for perpetuity, creating anarchy… The BJP desires to distract individuals from rising costs, unemployment, and the well being points dropped at gentle by the pandemic…
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The AIMPLB has questioned the stance that secular events have taken on the matter or the dearth of it. What have been your expectations from them?
It could be very unlucky that the so-called secular events haven’t come out and stated something, particularly in protection of the Places of Worship Act… And but, when the elections roll up, they count on Muslims to vote for them…
What is the recourse for the Muslim group underneath the circumstances?
This is not only concerning the Muslim group however the Constitution of India and the way forward for the nation… a majority of India’s inhabitants has not voted for the BJP… In the assembly held on Tuesday, we determined that AIMPLB, for the primary time, will attain out to leaders of all non-Muslim our bodies…
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
