Sunehri Bagh masjid demolition: ‘With Mosque will go all this history’, netizens react
Indian Express reported, adding that so far, more than 300 suggestions have been received via mail, of which, mostly opposed the demolition. The Delhi Waqf Board asserts that they own the land on which the mosque is situated, but the NDMC claims that the government owns the land. Officials had stated that the mosque was causing traffic jams in the area.
However, Sunehri Bagh Masjid’s Imam Abdul Aziz opposed the claims of traffic congestion in the area, calling the notification “illegal and arbitrary", as per Indian Express reports. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kishanganj MP Dr. Mohammad Jawed strongly objected to the NDMC’s notification.
“I raise the strongest objection to the proposed demolition of Sunehri Mosque and urge@tweetndmc to devise an alternative plan to save this site of immense cultural importance and heritage!" Indian historian Rana Safvi stated that Sunehri Bagh masjid is a mosque in which Maulana Hasrat Mohani stayed when attending Parliament sessions, and refused government accommodation plus salary and allowances given to MPs. “Maulana Hasrat Mohani traveled to and from parliament on a bicycle or in a shared Tonga to attend Parliament sessions. He was the first to move the resolution for complete independence in the 1931 Congress Session.
It was he who coined the slogan Inquilab Zindabad. With the Mosque will go all this history. via Sohail Hashmi sb," she wrote on the microblogging site.
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