RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat is latest to share his remarks on the row over the Gyanvapi mosque. Speaking at an event on Thursday Bhagwat questioned the need to ‘look for a Shivling in every mosque” and said that RSS was not in favour of launching any other movement on these issues.
“Why escalate the fight? Why look for a ‘Shivling’ in every Masjid?” asked Mohan Bhagwat while addressing the concluding ceremony of the RSS’s third year officer training camp in Nagpur.
He said that the RSS had already made it clear that its participation in the Ayodhya agitation was an exception. “On November 9, we said that for historical reasons, we got involved in the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign and we completed it. Now, we don’t want to lead any movement”.
Talking about the Gyanvapi Mosque case, Mohan Bhagwat said, “Now the issue of Gyanvapi Mosque is going on. There is history which we cannot change. We didn’t write that history, neither the Hindus nor the Muslims of the present. It happened in the past.”
He added, “When Islam came, in order to break the morale of the Indians then, thousands of temples were destroyed”.
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“Issues were raised over places in which Hindus have a special devotion. Hindus don’t think against Muslims. The ancestors of today’s Muslims were Hindus too. It was done to keep them forever devoid of independence and suppress morale. So Hindus feel they (religious places) should be restored,” he said.
Mr Bhagwat said the RSS is not opposed to any form of worship and considers all of them holy. “We have no opposition against any form of worship; we accept them all and consider all of them holy. They may have adopted that form of worship, but they are descendants of our rishis, munis, Kshatriyas. We are descendants of the same ancestors,” he said.
The RSS chief is of the view that Gyanvapi issue needs to be sorted out amicably between the two sides and if the two sides decide to go to court, they need to respect the court’s verdict.
Meanwhile, the Varanasi district court on Monday deferred till July 4 a hearing on the Gyanvapi masjid committee’s petition challenging the maintainability of a suit filed by Hindu women.
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