Ram temple opening: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi says 'had the situation today been same if...'
ALSO READ: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's remark ahead of Ram Temple opening, says ‘We have lost our Masjid…’ "...the Muslims had offered namaz in that area (Babri Masjid) for 500 years. When Congress's GB Pant was the chief minister (of Uttar Pradesh), idols were placed inside the masjid at one night...but the idols were not removed from there... there was a collector named Nair.
He shut down the Masjid and started doing puja there, and in 1950s, Nair became the Jan Sangh's first member of the Parliament," Owaisi said. FOLLOW Ayodhya Ram Mandir Inauguration Live Updates He added that late in 1986, locks were opened without listening to the Muslims. "On 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid was demolished...sacrificed by the BJP and the Sang parivar," the AIMIM chief said.
Owaisi said the Ram Mandir did not exist when Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) was formed. He also said Mahatma Gandhi never mentioned anything about Ram Mandir. " Very systematically, Babri Masjid has been taken away from Indian Muslims...," he said.
He asked, "Had we seen things how they are today if GB Pant had removed those idols back then? or if the locks had not been opened in 1986 and if the Masjid had not been demolished on 6 December". He said, “These are the questions were are asking and no one is responding to them." Hitting out at the other Opposition parties and the BJP, Owaisi said, "Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is also in the INDIA alliance, says we will organise Sunderkand Paath and Hanuman Chalisa every Tuesday at government schools...Does a government school have any religion?" "Nobody speaks anything about this because they are all busy targeting the votes of the majority community...," Owaisi said. Owaisi's recent remarks asking
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