Author: Our Special Correspondent
Publication: The Hindu
Date: June 26, 2003
URL: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/06/26/stories/2003062605891100.htm
The Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid,
Syed Ahmed Bukhari, has charged that the All-India Muslim Personal Law
Board was getting ready to give up all claims to the disputed Babri masjid
site in Ayodhya when the board's working committee meets in Lucknow on
July 6 to consider the Ayodhya proposal of the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Jayendra
Saraswati.
In a statement released to the press
here today, the Shahi Imam's office reiterated its earlier stand - only
a court verdict was acceptable to it and added that Muslims had not authorised
the AIMPLB to speak or decide on their behalf.
The Kanchi seer's ``secret'' formula
for resolution of the Ayodhya dispute has already annoyed the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad and created a rift between the BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
and now it seems it has resulted in serious tensions between the Shahi
Imam and the AIMPLB. The Shahi Imam said that ``Muslims have never authorised
the Muslim Personal Law Board or any other organisation or individual to
talk with aggressive organisations without getting the idols removed (from
the site of the Babri Masjid).''
Referring to the hope expressed
by the Kanchi seer that some solution would be found to the Ayodhya problem
on July 7, he pointed out that the AIMPLB working committee was scheduled
to meet and discuss the seer's proposals on the issue the day earlier.
The Imam charged: ``All preparations
have been completed for (Muslims) giving up claim on Babri Masjid.'' He
rejected such a solution and said that Muslims and their organisations
had decided earlier that the solution should be a court verdict, whichever
way it went.
AIMPLB to go ahead with meet
PTI reports from Lucknow:
Ignoring opposition from the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad (VHP) to a negotiated settlement of the vexed Ayodhya tangle
on the basis of the Kanchi seer's formula, the AIMPLB today made it clear
that it would go ahead with its proposed July 6 meeting of the working
committee to discuss the seer's proposals.
``The VHP's opposition will have
no affect on the board's working committee meeting slated for July 6 to
consider the seer's formula,'' the AIMPLB spokesman Maulana Sajjad Nomani
said.
