There is no doubt that the whole country is watching with keen interest towards the outcome from Ayodhya case verdict with the apprehension about its repercussions.
Basically Ayodhya issue is a political issue. It needs to be sorted out by the Government, Political parties and other stakeholders arriving at consensus through national debate.
The issues in the court currently are mainly related about the ownership of the disputed property like any other civil suite and the validity and interpretation of archaeological evidences about the existence of a ‘Hindu’ structure prior to the building of Babari Masjid.
But today Ayodhya issue is bigger than that. Now it is a National issue with multiple dimensions. If not resolved amicably it will have long lasting impact on the social fabric of this country.
Originally the issue was never Indian Hindus versus Indian Muslims. It has become so with the political activity as well as political inactivity.
Looking at Hindu – Muslim divide most of the Indians agree that partition of British India should have never taken place. After the independence it was not wrong to protect the rights of the minorities. However over the years it deviated to appeasement of the Muslims for creating the vote bank rather than the real developmental activities for the Muslim Community. This resulted in anger about favoritism of Muslim creeping in the minds of Hindus. Demolition of Babari Masjid was the expression of this anger.
Does this mean demolishing the Masjid was justifiable?
No. No place of faith of any religion should be damaged.
The Hindus also cannot ignore the fact that centuries ago Muslim rulers have demolished hundreds and thousands Hindu temples and converted them into mosque as they didn’t believe in idol worship.
Does this mean that we should turn the wheel of history back to destroy every such Masjid?
No. That also will be not correct.
There were attempts to resolve this issue in the past by peaceful means. If the Muslim community would have realized that Ayodhya is a birth place of ‘Ram’ the Hindu God and a matter of faith of millions of Hindus while the so called Masjid or ‘disputed structure’ is just another remnant of Muslim rule where even locals were not paying Namaz for several years maybe the demolition would have never happened. But the lack of initiative to intervene by central government due to fear of losing vote bank by hurting Muslim sentiments has not only resulted counterproductive but the issue has been dragged to such an extent that now it has become more and more difficult to be handled by Political leaders alone.
The last minute attempt by the Supreme Court will not leave anyone chance to complain tomorrow that no enough attempts have been made for settlement. And if this attempt does not work the verdict of the High Court will make the way free for further political battle.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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