New Delhi. Agra’s Taj Mahal is surrounded by controversies these days. One of the seven wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal is in the news these days. Let us inform that today, the hearing of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court is going on on the petition to open 22 closed rooms in the Taj Mahal. During this, Justice DK Upadhyay has reprimanded the petitioner and also asked the petitioner not to misuse the PIL system. Let us tell you that in the Allahabad High Court of Uttar Pradesh, BJP leader Dr Rajneesh Singh, a resident of Ayodhya, had filed a petition for the opening of 22 closed doors of the Taj Mahal, in which he replaced the Taj Mahal with Tejo Mahalaya or Shiva temple as well as Hindu deities. There was a sensational claim of idols being locked in it.
On one hand, there is an uproar over the closed cellars of the Taj Mahal. Politics has also heated up on this issue. Meanwhile, now some real pictures of those closed cellars have come to the fore. It is being told that this picture was taken when the survey was done in 1936. Let us tell you that these basements have been closed for tourists for almost 5 decades. But it is not that these basements are always closed. This cellar is opened from time to time by the ASI. At the beginning of the year, in January, the rooms in the basement were opened for conservation work.
Earlier, BJP MP from Rajsamand in Rajasthan and princess of Jaipur royal family, Diya Kumari made a big claim. Diya Kumari had said that, in the document we have, earlier the Taj Mahal used to be the palace of the royal family and Shah Jahan had occupied it. At that time the government was theirs. If a government acquires any land, it gives compensation in return. I have heard that some compensation was given in return for him, but at that time there was no law to appeal or protest against him.