New Delhi, Nov 27, TEN Network | Masjid side lawyer Rajeev Dhavan, on Wednesday, triggered a massive controversy and said that ‘only Hindus disturb peace in the country, Muslims never do that’. Dhavan said that the Muslim side will not file a review of the Ayodhya verdict and added that ‘Injustice has been done to Muslims’. Later, however, he said that the remarks were misconstrued and that by Hindus, he meant ‘RSS’.
“Muslims have never been responsible for disturbing the atmosphere in the country. Hindus do it,” Dhavan told times Now on the sidelines of an event. Stressing that injustice has been done to the Muslim side, Dhavan said that no land should be offered or accepted to and by the Muslims respectively in the Ayodhya dispute case.
He later refuted the remark and called it a ‘television mischief’. “This is television mischief. When I speak of Hindus, I am not speaking of Hindus generally. If I was, then I would also be speaking of myself. When the word Hindu is used in its context, it speaks about the Sangh Parivar in relation to the Babri Masjid… In court, I told people who destroyed the Babri Masjid that they were Hindu Taliban. I am speaking of those sections of Sangh Parivar, who are dedicated to violence, lynching to destroying mosques and killing,” he told news agency ANI.
Dhavan’s comments came even as the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) announced that it will file a review petition of the Ayodhya verdict in the Supreme Court. “Exercising our constitutional right, we’re going to file a review petition in the Ayodhya case during the 1st week of Dec. Sunni Waqf Board’s decision not to pursue the case won’t legally affect us. All Muslim organisations are on the same page,” the board was quoted as saying in a statement by news agency ANI.
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court, on November 9, asked the government to hand over the disputed land at Ayodhya to a trust for the construction of a temple. It also directed the government to allot a five-acre plot to the Muslim side. Many from the Muslim side, including AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, have expressed views that the plot should not be accepted as the fight was not for a piece of land, but for the rights of Muslims. (TN)
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