Ajmer Sharif Dargah Row: ‘PMs from Nehru to Modi send chadar to Dargah’: Opposition to Ajmer row | India News

NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for “weakening the rule of law in the country” after the court accepted Hindu Sena’s plea claiming that Ajmer Sharif Dargah was the temple of Lord Shiva.
Pointing out that the dargah is 800 years old, AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi said: “When Queen Elizabeth came to visit in 1911, they built a water house there. Prime Ministers from Nehru have sent ‘Chadar’ to the dargah. Prime Minister Modi is also sending ‘Chadar’ there. Why has BJP-RSS spread this hatred against mosques and dargahs?”
“Why don’t the lower courts hear the case? Law on Places of Worship?” he added.
“They have turned the Ministry of Minority Affairs into a party (in this case). What will the Modi government tell them? Why don’t the lower courts listen to the law on places of worship? You go everywhere saying something else was going on. site of a mosque or dargah. The next time a Muslim would also go somewhere and say that this did not exist here. What about the rule of law? Owaisi asked.

‘People in power are setting the country back’

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Dimple Yadav accused the BJP of trying to take the country backward. She claimed that the current government is not prioritizing youth employment, instead focusing on issues that distract the public from more pressing problems.
“We want the Sambhal incident to be discussed in the Lok Sabha. The chairman has assured us that he will have it discussed. There is a complete roadmap through which the UP police are harassing and manipulating the people… That is what we are saying. This has been carried out in a well-planned manner,” she said.

‘Such things will set the country on fire’

Congress MP Imran Masood urged Prime Minister Modi to investigate the matter and warned that such events could disrupt peace in the country.
“Such things will set the whole country on fire. What’s going on? The Prime Minister should look into this matter and the Supreme Court should take cognizance of this matter. Where do you want to sideline an entire community? You are leaving their religious places and properties,” he said.
“Where do you want to sideline us? Where are we going? Banish us from the land. Under which mosques will you look for temples? Is there a limit or not? They (the central government) have set aside the Worship Act 1991. Will they (the BJP) burn down the entire nation for their political gain? Jab aag lagti hai to sabke ghar lagti hai (When the fire rages, it rages everywhere),” he added.
A court in Ajmer on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) regarding a lawsuit filed by a Hindu organisation.
The lawsuit alleged that the site of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s dargah was originally the site of a Shiva temple, based on “historical evidence” suggesting that the 13th-century Sufi saint’s white marble shrine was built above the temple before it became his grave.