Muslims opposing Ram temple have no place in India: Wasim Rizvi

Lucknow, Feb 5: Uttar Pradesh Shia Wakf Board chairman Wasim Rizvi came out strongly against those Muslims opposing construction of Ram Temple at Ramjanmabhumi in Ayodhya asking them to seek shelter in Pakistan as they don’t deserve to stay in India.

“Muslims who are against building Ram Temple in Ayodhya must go to Pakistan and Bangladesh”, he said on Friday. It may be recalled that the Shia Wakf Board has taken a view that Ayodhya land did not nelog to the Sunni Wakf Board and that they have the right over the land. The Board has also maintained that since it was the birth place of Lord Rama, the temple should be constructed there only. 

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute from February 8.

Wasim Rizvi who has of late become a controversial public figure due to his pro-temple statements and stance, offered prayers at Ayodhya and met the chief priest of Ram janmabhumi Acharya Satyendra Das on Friday.

On this occasion Rizci said that those who were opposing the Ram temple in Ayodhya and wanted to build the Babri mosque there…People having such fundamental mentality should go to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Such Muslims do not have any place in India, he added.

“Those who want to spread Jihad in the name of the mosque must go and join the forces of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS chief,” Rizvi said.

Rizvi further alleged that fundamentalist Muslim clerics were trying to destroy the communal peace in the country. But they will not succeed in their plans, he added.

Meanwhile, in a sharp reaction to Rizvi’s remarks President of Shia Ulema Council Maulana Iftekhar Hussain Inquilabi demanded his arrest for trying to communalise the atmosphere.