Burnol moment for Owaisi! AIMIM leader cries foul over Gyanvapi verdict, says 'going on same path as of Babri Masjid'

Hyderabad, Sept 13: At a time when Hindus across India rejoiced after the Varanasi court allowed Hindus to worship in Gyanvapi, there were many people including liberals who could not digest the decision.

 

One of them is AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi who started crying foul soon after the court delivered the verdict over the Gyanvyapi. Reacting to the verdict, he related it to the Babri Masjid case. He claimed that after this order, the purpose of the Places of Worship Act 1991 will "fall".

 

 

 

The Varanasi district court rejected the plea questioning the maintainability of a petition seeking permission for daily worship of Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque.

 

District Judge AK Vishvesh ordered that the court would continue to hear the petition seeking the right to worship deities on the outer wall of the mosque complex located close to the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

 

The court fixed September 22 as the next date of hearing in the case. Reacting to the court order, Asaduddin Owaisi opined that there should be an appeal in High Court against this order and hoped that the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee will appeal against this order.

 

 

"I believe that after this order, the purpose of the Places of Worship Act 1991 will fail," he said.

 

The Act prohibits conversion of any place of worship and provides for the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August 1947 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

 

 

 

Further criticising the court order, the AIMIM chief said, "A destabilising effect will start after this. We are going on the same path as that of the Babri masjid issue. When judgment on Babri Masjid was given, I warned everyone that this will create problems in the country as this judgment was given on the basis of faith."

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