BJP supporters greet Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami in Dehradun after the passage of the Uniform Civil Code Bill. | Photo Credit: PTI Uttarakhand Assembly ‘creates history’ by passing Uniform Civil Code: Pushkar Dhami The Uttarakhand Assembly passed the State’s Uniform Civil Code on Wednesday, despite the Opposition’s demand thatRead More →
In this May, 2022 file photo, the Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi. | Photo Credit: PTI The Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI) on November 21, 2022 told the Allahabad High Court that the agency needed three months’ time to prepare a report on what couldRead More →
Relying on a 1994 ruling of the Supreme Court, which held that it is not mandatory for Muslims to offer prayers in a mosque, advocates for the petitioners from Hindu side on Wednesday told a Varanasi court that the Places of Worship Act, 1991, does not apply in the GyanvapiRead More →
In first remarks on the row over the Gyanvapi mosque, now at the centre of court room battles in Varanasi, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat Thursday questioned the need to “look for a Shivling in every mosque (har masjid me Shivling kyun dekhna)” and said the RSS was not in favourRead More →
At the heart of the courtroom debate over the Gyanvapi matter, the hearing of which will resume in the Varanasi District Court on July 4, is a 1942 ruling of the Allahabad High Court that dealt with the ownership of the mosque and the land surrounding it. Both parties inRead More →
The BJP and RSS have attempted to maintain a distance from the ongoing Kashi Vishwanath Temple-Gyanvapi mosque and the Mathura Idgah controversies. Barring statements of “truth must come out” and “people can’t be stopped from going to court”, both have avoided directly engaging with the matters at the organisational level.Read More →
What is the AIMPLB’s stand on the Gyanvapi mosque controversy? We have a very clear stand on the matter. Once the Places of Worship Act came into being in 1991, there is simply no space for controversy regarding any place of worship. It had been unanimously decided and passed inRead More →
Thirty one years is a very long time in politics but when it comes to the BJP’s stand on Kashi and Mathura, it’s hardly a blink. The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, that is being tested by the Gyanvapi survey, the law that the Supreme Court, in itsRead More →
Declining to stay proceedings before a Varanasi court on matters related to the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque complex, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Varanasi district magistrate to secure the area where a Shivling was claimed to have been found during a videographic survey of the mosque area without impedingRead More →
The Varanasi court on Tuesday removed the Advocate Commissioner it had appointed initially to oversee the videographic survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex, stating that he had been “highly irresponsible” in executing the work. The court also extended the deadline for submission of the survey report by two days toRead More →
