PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday condemned a plea in a Rajasthan court docket claiming that the Ajmer dargah was constructed over a Hindu temple, saying “focusing on” of mosques and shrines can result in “additional bloodshed”.
“Because of a former Chief Justice of India a Pandora’s field has been opened sparking a contentious debate about minority spiritual locations. Regardless of a Supreme Courtroom ruling that the established order ought to be maintained because it existed in 1947, his judgement has paved the way in which for surveys of those websites probably resulting in elevated rigidity between Hindus and Muslims,” she mentioned in a submit on X.
She was apparently referring to an order by a bench led by then CJI DY Chandrachud permitting the ASI to conduct a scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque to find out if the 17th-century construction was constructed upon a pre-existing temple. Nonetheless, the court docket had requested the ASI to not take recourse to any invasive act in the course of the survey.
The previous chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir claimed the latest violence in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh is the direct results of this judgment.
Violence had erupted in Sambhal the place a court-ordered survey of the Jama Masjid mosque was carried out following claims {that a} Harihar temple beforehand stood on the website.
“First mosques and now Muslim shrines like Ajmer Sharief is being focused which may end up in additional bloodshed. The query stays – who will take duty for perpetuating this communal violence harking back to the partition days?” she added.
Equally, Folks’s Convention president Sajad Gani Lone additionally expressed sturdy disapproval of the plea and slammed misplaced priorities and rising regression in Indian society.
“One more shocker.. supposedly hidden someplace within the Ajmer Dargah Sharif,” Lone mentioned in a press release.
He mentioned that as 2025 approaches, marking the daybreak of the Synthetic Intelligence period, society has regrettably chosen the trail of regression.
“And as Indians, allow us to be sincere – we’ve got not contributed to any technological revolution. Sure, we’ve got the assets to utilize them by shopping for, however scientific innovation. No. None. Not even remotely,” he added.
Lone expressed concern that the nation’s focus seems completely consumed by an obsession with uncovering hidden temples.
“And make no errors, a statistically important part of the inhabitants is applauding it,” he mentioned.
“And sure, the extra educated, the extra temple-searchers they are typically. These educated ones who ought to have been on the forefront of heralding the Indian tech revolution are busy mythologizing,” Lone added.
