Supreme Court never said Babri Masjid erected razing temple: Owaisi
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Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday took exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent comments in Ayodhya that centuries-old wounds were healing. He pointed out that the Supreme Court in its judgment had said there is no evidence that the Babri mosque was erected after demolishing any temple, PTI reported.
"Prime Minister said wounds of 500 years are being healed. The question is that the Supreme Court, in its judgment, said there is no evidence that the mosque was erected after demolishing any temple, then on what basis is the PM speaking like this? What wounds he is talking about," Owaisi said, speaking at an event here.
The wound is that on December 6, 1992, the "Babri mosque was made shaheed (martyr)" and that the Constitution and rule of law were weakened, he said.
"We have to understand and remember that December 6 is a Black Day," he said.
Just like the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the killings of Sikhs after the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the demolition on December 6 is a Black Day, he said.
"We have seen that the verdict (Ram Janmbhoomi case) was given based on faith. The judges have written in the Babri Masjid case that the Places of Worship Act is part of the Basic Structure (of the Constitution)," he said.
He reminded that a judge of the Supreme Court who wrote the judgment in the Ayodhya issue said after retirement in an interview that it was wrong to build a mosque after demolishing the temple, which is painful.
Observing that the country "has no religion" and it belongs to all people, he said if someone says it belongs to one religion, it will be disrespectful to all those who took part in the freedom struggle, which included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and all religions.
Saying that a court had acquitted the accused in the Babri demolition case, he said the question arises as to who demolished the mosque.
The Modi government did not appeal against the trial court's decision, he reminded.
