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Nirmohi Akhara ready for out-of-court settlement
Tuesday, October 05, 2010 06:04:46 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
Close on the heels of the initiative taken by 90-year-old Hashim
Ansari for a negotiated settlement on the Ayodhya issue, the
Nirmohi Akhara too has expressed its inclination to talk and
resolve the dispute once and for all.
"I welcome the initiative taken by Mahant Gyan Das and Hashim
Ansari and will be only too glad to be a party to the move for
bringing the dispute to an amicable settlement and avoid another
unending court battle," Nirmohi Akhara chief Mahant Bhaskar Das
told IANS Tuesday over telephone from Ayodhya, about 130 km from
here.
Significantly, while Ansari was the first Muslim to stake a legal
claim to the Babri Masjid after it was usurped by Hindu mobs on
the night of Dec 22-23, 1949, it was the Nirmohi Akhara which
sought legal right to offer prayers at the disputed site way back
in 1885.
It was Ansari who took the first step towards initiating a process
of reconciliation instead of proceeding straight to the country's
apex court in appeal against the Sep 30 order of the Allahabad
High Court.
The court split the disputed land into three parts - one going to
the contending Muslim group and the other two to be shared by two
Hindu groups involved in the legal battle.
Ansari's talks with Mahant Gyan Das, president of All India Akhara
Parishad and head of Ayodhya's Hanuman Garhi temple, on Sunday
helped in breaking the ice.
And what followed Monday was yet another positive move, with
Nirmohi Akhara chief Mahant Bhaskar Das too expressing his desire
to join the reconciliation bandwagon.
Bhaskar Das, 81, said he was confident that very soon many
prominent holy men of Ayodhya would join the dialogue process with
local Muslims and other contestants in the case.
While he declined to divulge the names of those with whom he
claimed to have got in touch, sources close to him confirmed that
he had mooted the idea to a few leading Ayodhya holy men.
They include Mahant Nrtiya Gopal Das, who heads the Ram Janmbhoomi
Trust, the body entrusted with the task of building the proposed
temple.
The move is likely to witness much opposition from the Sunni
Central Waqf Board, whose counsel and Babri Masjid Action
Committee (BMAC) convenor Zafaryab Jilani has taken serious
affront to Hashim Ansari's initiative.
"Ansari is just an individual litigant; he is no authority on
behalf of the Waqf Board which is the key contestant," he said.
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