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De jure temple in Ayodhya
By Khadijatul Kubra, Faizabad
Deposing before the Justice Manmohan
Singh Liberhan Commission, Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani on April
11 said that ‘according to the Faizabad civil judge, the place was
neither used as a mosque nor was namaz offered there, at least from 1936.
On the contrary, Hindus had been performing pooja there’, and pat came
the example how Muslims were unjustifiably being prevented even in
entering the masjid- Janambhoomi complex leave alone the offering of namaz
at the over 456-years-old mosque.
Even as the Supreme Court had declared long ago in its order on October
24, 1994 that ‘No account is taken of the fact that there is a dispute
in respect of the site on which puja is to be performed; that, as stated
in the White Paper, until the night of 22/23rd December, 1949, when idols
were paced in the disputed structure, the disputed structure was being
used as a mosque; and that the Muslim community has a claim to offer Namaz
thereon (para 142), Muslims were not being allowed even to enter into the
vast complex of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya at the instance of the
district administration. And, very recently, the District Magistrate of
Faizabad, Mrs. Archana Agrawal was proud in declaring that the a Muslim
group from the Southern states of Kerala and Karnataka were detained as
they were found suspicious. The whereabouts of nine Muslim youths were
located and later released as they were found ‘genuine Indians.’ They
were detained by the security forces at the entrance of the complex on
April 17. It is this kind of behaviour of the administration since
Independence that had prevented Muslims from offering namaz at the campus
of the ancient mosque. But Mr. Advani stole the publicity by announcing as
Union Home Minister that Muslims had not offered namaz there. It is this
kind of mischievous behaviour of leader like Mr. Advani that things are
not getting its logical ends.
Muslims of different parts of the country particularly of Ayodhya/
Faizabad are as usual interested in offering namaz even in the open at the
complex but it was the biased attitude of the administration in the guise
of maintenance of law and order and peace that Muslims were obeying orders
as a good citizen, avoiding out-rightly taking law in their own hands.
On the other hand, the behaviour of the administration and the police was
blatant bias and communal in nature. A recent example is that the DIG and
SSP forced the policemen of the area to donate one month salary towards
the fund for the construction of Ram temple at the disputed site. The
policemen leaked the documents to the press in which the SSP of Faizabad
was informed by the dealing clerk of the salary section of the SSP office
that the amount had been deducted at source for the construction of the
disputed temple. The papers of the capital even published the copy of the
letter. The clarification, following an embarrassing situation of the
government was far from satisfactory. q |
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