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The leak and tabling of Liberhan
Commission report has created a big turmoil in the country. While
most of the sides have been shouting hoarse about their own position
on the issue, not much has been talked about the future solution of
this vexed problem.
We recall that the mosque built by Mir Baqui around five centuries
ago has been deliberately dragged into the controversy. At the time
of Independence it was a mosque, no political party had claimed
anything to the contrary. As per the understanding in the
constitution, the status of 1947 was to be maintained in cases of
places of worship. The installation of Ram lalla idols by deceit in
midnight of 22nd Jan 1949 sowed the seeds of controversy. Later in
1975 the dispute between two local groups was taken up by Vishwa
Hindu Parishad and in 1989, BJP decided to make a political issue
out of it. The tragic demolition and the making of makeshift Ram
temple there have added new dimensions to the issue.
It is around this issue that Hindu and Muslim communalists raised
the emotional pitch and the tragedies which followed, the
demolition, the post demolition communal violence and
communalization, polarization of society along religious lines are
too well known by now. The court case regarding the same is dragging
from last several years without any outcome so far.
Where do we go from here? Do we let this sore to continue on the
body politic of the nation? This may act as the trouble spot for the
future. It is time that we look at all the aspects of the issue and
try to bring a peaceful solution to the issue.
The first step in the issue is to realize that if the communal
forces from both communities which have claimed that they represent
the community and so they will decide on behalf of Hindus or Muslims
respectively. The fact of the matter and, this has been confirmed by Liberhan Commission report, is that these communal groups neither
represent the community nor reflect the opinion the communities as a
whole. It is imperative that we look forward to the liberal
sections, leadership from these communities to come forward and talk
in the language of reconciliation. The liberal sections are those
who have so far been ignored, but they are the one’s who have talked
of peace and accommodation. The election results have also shown
that those claiming to represent the aspirations of a particular
community have been routed in popular elections. The elected
representatives of the area have a major role to play in bringing
the consensus. We cannot undo the past but we can definitely chart a
peaceful path for future. The peaceful talks between these sections
along with the local people of Ayodhya are the central core for
solution.
The people of Ayodhya have also been the victims of the demolition
and other offshoots of the dispute. What they think should be done
at the site has to be taken seriously. They have to be taken on
board along with the liberal leadership of the communities. Today
the most amicable solution has to veer around respecting Ram and
Allah both. Both temple and mosque can be accommodated in the area,
with equal importance and respect.
Along with temple and mosque in the same spot we need to bring up a
museum dedicated to the great tradition of Ayodhya. Ayodhya has not
only been popular for Lord Ram, but it had also been a place for
Buddhists and also people of other faith as well. It has been a sort
of ‘No War zone’ (A- no, Yudhya-War, Ayodhya- A no war zone), and
that spirit has to be cultivated all around. The emotive and
divisive appeals need to be rejected by the nation as a whole. In
that light the museum-memorial has to be the one of syncretic
traditions, of saints who were followed by Muslims and Hindus both,
of Sufis who again were respected by Hindus and Muslims both. While
the history has been made to degenerate into hoarse shouting, a cool
reasoned archeological based understanding should help us to go
further. The negotiations between the communities have to be
encouraged to the last.
The second line of action has to relate to the court verdict. The
court verdict should be final for all of us. The formulation that
faith will decide the birth place of the Lord has no place in a
society governed by law and reason. The community leaders must give
undertaking to respect the court verdict and act accordingly. Those
not having faith in the courts cant be the part of the process of
reconciliation as reconciliation has to be done in the framework of
Indian Constitution. We have invested too much in this issue and it
is time that not only this but even other such issues are not given
any importance to ensure that the country, nation, can focus on the
issues related to bread, butter shelter, employment and health.
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