Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM
Subject: Press Statement
New Delhi: 23 February, 2010, Mr. Syed Shahabuddin, President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, has issued the following statement;
Subject: Press Statement
ALL INDIA MUSLIM MAJLIS-E-MUSHAWARAT
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AIMMM REJECTS BJP PRESIDENT’S SUGGESSION ON BABRI MASJID
DEMADS BJP/VHP COMMIT THEMSELVES TO ACCEPT FINAL JUDICIAL VERDICT
‘The All lndia Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat (AIMMM) has taken note of the views of Shri Nitin Gadk`ari, the President of the BJP, on the Babari Masjid Question as well as his appeal to the Muslim community ‘to facilitate the construction of the proposed Ram Temple on the Babari Masjid site’.
Shri. Gadkari being new to the job does not appear to be familiar or conversant with the developments since 1986. Since 1986, and even after 1992, there were several rounds of negotiations with the RJB Movement, the last at the highest level of the Shankaracharya, and all those negotiations failed because the Hindu side insisted on taking the Babari Masjid site and building a Mandir thereon and rejected several compromises offered by the Muslim side, including the construction of Mandir with Ram Chamber as the base next to the Babari Masjid. His suggestion is not new. The VHP and the BJP have both offered to build a ‘magnificent masjid outside Ayodhya’ if the Muslim community surrenders the Babari Masjid & its site. Since then, in total defiance of the law, the BJP organized ‘Kar Seva’, demolished the Babari Masjid and built a makeshift temple covering most of the Masjid.
The Supreme Court ruled in October, 1994 that the Special Bench of the Allahabad High Court should resume hearings on title to the Babari Masjid site & also laid down a road map for the construction of both a Masjid and a Mandir near each other within the Acquired Area. The title suit hearing is nearing completion. The Muslim community at various levels has reiterated its willingness to accept the final judicial verdict, whatever it be. Unfortunately, no leader of the BJP or VHP or the Ramjanmabhumi Nyas has made a parallel commitment to the rule of Law.
The AIMMM would also like to inform Shri Gadkari that according to the tenets of Islam it is the site consecrated for worship which constitutes the essential Masjid and not the structure. Therefore, even after the Demolition the Masjid continues to exist. Also, the Muslim community has repeatedly rejected any substitute for the Babari Masjid.
The AIMMM considers that the Gadkari proposal is meaningless because national interest demands that both sides await the final judicial verdict and accept it without any murmur.’
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