The war of words between political parties has intensified over the survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex in Varanasi, UP. Let us tell you that regarding the recent survey conducted for three days, the opposition parties say that BJP is deliberately raising the issue of Gyan Vapi so that we and you may get distracted from the real issues. At the same time, AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi has also said that there was a mosque in Gyanvapi and will remain till the doom.
Meanwhile, in a TV debate, there was a fierce debate between BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi and Owaisi on the issue of Shivling found in Gyanvapi. Sudhanshu Trivedi asked the question and asked Owaisi that Owaisi should tell us what is the relation of knowledge and word Vapi with Islam? Along with this, Trivedi asked that Owaisi tell me what is the relation of Kashi with Islam?
Referring to a book by Congress veteran Salman Khurshid, he said, “Former Law Minister Salman Khurshid wrote ‘Ayodhya Rising’ before the UP elections. In that book he has written a chapter on Kashi. In which it is written that since 1114 this temple has been broken repeatedly but then the temple continued to be built.
Sudhanshu Trivedi said, “It is written in the book that Aurangzeb demolished the temple at Kashi in 1669 and built the mosque there.” Sudhanshu Trivedi said that this thing has been written by Salman Khurshid, a lawyer older than Owaisi. On this the anchor said that what someone wrote will not decide. Supreme Court will decide.
While questioning Owaisi, the anchor said that Ayodhya, Kashi be it Mathura, whenever Hindus go on their pilgrimages here, they are unable to worship their God there. They come back after touching the walls of the mosque there. Why is this Hindu vs Muslim? This is Mughal vs Indian. It is against the Mughal rulers to get back their history.
To this Owaisi said, “So why are you talking only of 500 years. I say talk about 2 thousand, 4 thousand years ago. The temple was built by demolishing the religious places of Jain and Buddhist followers. Owaisi took a jibe at the central government and said that the Mughal rulers are responsible for inflation, fall in rupee, unemployment.
Let us inform that in the survey conducted on the Gyanvapi Masjid complex, it was claimed on behalf of the Hindu side that Shivling has been found from the Gyanvapi complex. On the other hand, the Muslim side is calling it a fountain. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday termed the Varanasi court’s order on the Kashi-Viswanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque issue as wrong, unfair and illegal.