SDPI issues open threat to RSS over Malai Masjid Row
Just days ago, several pro-Hindu groups including VHP carried out "tambula prashne" - a ritual involving astrology to know the truth - to find out whether a temple existed at that particular place. After the ritual, the Hindu groups said a "Shiv" temple indeed existed where now the Juma Masjid stands today.
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In a shocking development, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), an extremist political party, has issued an open threat to the RSS, saying it can not take even a handful of soil from the site, where temple-like structures are claimed to have been discovered.
A major controversy has erupted in Karnataka's Mangalore where Hindu groups claim that a Shiv temple existed at a site where a mosque has been built. The dispute began after ruins of the temple were found during renovation work of the Juma Masjid at Malali in Mangaluru.
Just days ago, several pro-Hindu groups including VHP carried out 'tambula prashne' - a ritual involving astrology to know the truth - to find out whether a temple existed at that particular place. After the ritual, the Hindu groups said a 'Shiv' temple indeed existed where now the Juma Masjid stands today.
In this backdrop, SDPI state chief Abdul Majeed issued a threat to the RSS and urged the people of Dakshina Kannada to show the right-wing Hindu organisations that they cannot even take a handful of soil from that place.
Earlier this week, the VHP conducted a puja to establish the nature of the deity they claim to exist at the mosque site. The Mangaluru city police commissioner had recently imposed Section 144 as the tension grew over the dispute.
Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Rajendra KV recently said that he had received information from field officials and the police department about the issue and that the district administration was looking into the old land records and entries regarding the ownership details.
"We will take reports both from the endowment department and the Waqf Board...we will check the validity of the claims and take the appropriate decision very soon. Till then, I have instructed them to maintain the status quo and requested people not to jump into conclusions," he said.
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