"Proposal Has To Come From Supreme Court": AIBMAC
"Proposal Has To Come From Supreme Court": AIBMAC
Meanwhile, the All India Babri Masjid Action Committeetoday it was ready to consider any proposal for construction of a temple outsidethe disputed Ayodhya site, provided it was routed through the Supreme Court.
"We are ready to consider any demand forconstruction of a temple in an area outside the graveyard of about 8.5 bighasand 23 plots of nazul area ..... but that has to be routed through the SupremeCourt," its Convenor Zafaryab Jilani was quoted on Star News.
The temple construction activity should be outside thearea where shilanyas was carried out and the Ram chabutra existed,Jilani said, adding that Supreme Court verdict was binding on both the VHP andthe Action Committee.
"Board Has No Right" : Shahi Imam
Meanwhile, the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Delhi today took strongexception to Muslim Personal Law Board agreeing to consider a proposal mooted byKanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati to construct a temple outside thedisputed area saying the Board has no right to do so.
''The Board has no right to take any decision with regard to Babri Masjiddispute" he fumed.
NDA Constituents
Telugu Desam asserted that status quo should be maintained in Ayodhyawhere the acquired land should also be treated as a disputed land because it isinter-linked. Party leader Yerran Naidu said nobody should enter the acquiredland."Whatever the present position is in Ayodhya, we have to maintain thesame position, that is TDP's stand. Nobody should enter nor even the governmentof Uttar Pradesh which is protecting everything at the disputed site".
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said she would seek anappointment with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday to expressconcern over the developments.
Samata Party spokesperson Jaya Jaitley also opposed the proposed VHP movefor bhoomipujan and 100-day religious ceremonies in Ayodhya from March15.
The National Conference has said that the status quo should be maintainedin Ayodhya failing which there will be an adverse reaction and the country willhave to pass through a precarious situation.
Resolve Through Process Of Law: Congress
"Congress stand is well known that the Ayodhya matter is sub-judice andhas to be resolved through the process of law", Party spokesman S JaipalReddy said.
Asked whether the Congress would support Shankaracharya's efforts, Reddy saidthe office of Shankaracharya had yesterday contacted Congress President SoniaGandhi to know the party's view point on Ayodhya. Gandhi has high regards forthe pontiff and thanked him for the courtesy extended to her, Reddy said addingthat the party's stand on the issue had
been communicated to him.
Quoting Supreme Court's order, Reddy said the land around the disputed sitecould not be handed over to anybody till a final settlment was arrived at. To aquestion, Reddy explained that Congress MP Ranganath Mishra was participating inthe negotiations being conducted by Shankaracharya not as party leader but as anoted jurist.
Stop Any Move For Appeasement of VHP: CPM
The following statement was issued by the CPM polit bureau:
"The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) wishes to makeit clear that the Vajpayee government is bound to maintain the status quo at thedisputed site at Ayodhya and the acquired land around it. The CPI(M) wishes towarn the government that any move to allow puja at the "shilanyas"site which is part of the acquired land or, handing over any portion of theacquired land to the VHP would be a surrender to the VHP and subversion of therule of law.
"The proposal mooted by the Shankaracharya Shri Jayendra Saraswati onthese lines is not acceptable as the VHP had made it clear that it sticks to theoriginal blueprint for temple construction whereby the sanctum sanctorum of thetemple will be located at the spot where the Babri Masjid stood. To allow aformal move for construction by doing puja at the shilanyas site or to handoverany portion of the acquired land at this stage would mean accepting the VHP'splan for construction.
"Such a move will flout the Supreme Court directive that nothing should bedone till the title deed suit being heard at the Lucknow Bench of the AllahabadHigh Court is decided through the judicial process.
"The country will not tolerate any repetition of the past history ofsurrender to communal pressures which can lead to serious disruption of nationalunity.
"The Polit Bureau appeals to all secular and democratic forces to realisethe danger of the moves being made by the BJP and the Central Government andunitedly demand that the Prime Minister stick to the position he stated earlierthat the matter can now be resolved only on the basis of the court decision.
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