What to Watch Out ForModi govt moves SC to return ‘excess’ land around disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site to Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas
The Centre on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court to return the land adjacent to the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid back to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas, an organization formed by Vishwa Hindu Parishad members to oversee the construction of the temple on the site.
The land in question is the 67.7 acres around the disputed site and the structures around it, which was acquired by the Narasimharao-led government back in 1993 in view of the law and order situation.
Conflict breakdown: The dispute over the land in Ayodhya came to a head in the 1980s when the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other groups opposed the presence of Babri Masjid on the site.
In 1992 came the riots allegedly led by right wing groups in which the Babri Masjid was razed and 2000 people killed.
In 1994 a three-person bench constituted by the Supreme Court on the issue refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench saying that a mosque was not integral to Islam.
Then in 2010 came the landmark Allahabad court judgement which directed that the land be divided into three parts between the Ram Lalla represented by the Hindu Maha Sabha, the Sunni Wakf and the Nirmohi Akhara.
The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha and the Sunni Waqf Board petitioned the apex court against the Allahabad court judgement following which the order to divide the land was stayed.
Why it matters: The handing over of the ‘excess’ land around the disputed site to a certain communities would inevitably spell the possibility of curtailed access to the land.
He said, she said: BJP general secretary Ram Madhav hailed the Centre’s move saying that it was “a much-awaited decision because the land in question belongs to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas, it was acquired in 1993, has nothing to do with the central dispute".
Zafaryab Jilani of the Sunni Waqf board however opposed the Centre’s petition. “It appears to be politically motivated and taken ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha elections by the National Democratic Alliance government," he said.
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