Ayodhya Verdict

With barely a day left for Ayodhya Verdict, the entire nation braces itself by intensifying the security measures in communally sensitive cities and towns of Uttar Pradesh.  But the Ayodhya dispute is a long and winding saga which started long back before  December 6, 1992, when the masjid was demolished or even before night of December 22, 1949, when the idol of Lord Ram was placed in the mosque, following which hundreds of Hindus arrived and started offering prayers. It all started on January 19, 1885, when a legal petition was filed by Mr. Raghubar Das whose appeals were rejected by Faizabad courts.

The outcome of the verdict will be decided by two key questions: to whom the disputed land belongs and was there a pre-existing temple? It is quite clear that the disputed land is a waqf property. The placing of Shri Ramchandra's idols in 1949 was an illegal act and the fact that 1992 mosque demolition took place in front of hundreds of policemen, is a blot on India.

I agree that it's most unfortunate that a masjid should have been built on the land specially held sacred by the Hindus. But as it occurred 356 years ago, it is too late now to remedy the grievance. Razing of the mosque and destroying the God's house was even more wrong and two wrongs dont make a right.

Some eminent historians also doubt the authencity of Lord Rama. Whether Lord Rama was actually born on the disputed site or whether a temple was demolished by Babar to make way for Babri Masjid, not even a single person involved in the demolition ever had a way of knowing the answers to the above questions.

I strongly disagree that the reclamation of Hindu heritage is dependent on reclaiming every bit of rock, twig, and dirt that is rumored to be sacred or belonging to Hindus. If thats the case, then the entire nation should be razed down.....What Babar did, Portuguese also repeated. Temples made way for churches, people were converted to Christianity forcibly and I'm sure that many more unaccounted atrocities might have been committed .......But no extremist outfit has any right to try changing the history and put innocent lives on stake by trying to do so.

No one can deny that Babri masjid was a national monument (it was designated as one in 1904). A monument is the legacy of the nation and its future generations. It teaches valuable lessons. Unfortunately, due to a radical Hindu mob, the monument no longer exists. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that no one should touch the mosque, the rioters literally tore the mosque apart by hand.

The long delayed Liberhan’s investigation concluded that the demolition was planned by BJP leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani. The report told nothing new, only a truth which everyone had known for long, that the then Indian government purposefully terrorised its citizens for political gains as elections were just round the corner. Isn't it a shame that the man who led this frenzy from the front, Mr. L.K Advani, went on to become the Home Minister although his P.M aspirations were mercilessly crushed. Quite rightly so! And I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the verdict to be in favour of Muslims so that Mr. Advani can go down in history as a singularly failed leader, with no creditable acheivement of his own. Not even a trivial one - of getting a temple constructed on a muslim land.

Its high time the government must stop behaving like an NGO by not letting its authority fall into the hands of street goons and the judiciary should restore the faith of its people by giving a verdict which is free from the fangles of religion by entirely being based on the facts....they failed the nation 18 years back, they should not let us down tomorrow.