Now, Hindu outfit calls for archaeological survey of Bhopal’s Jama Masjid, rakes up temple idea

By Express News Service

BHOPAL: While Gyanwapi Mosque case in Varanasi continues to hog headlines, an analogous situation appears brewing over 700 kms away within the Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. 

A neighborhood proper wing Hindu outfit Sanskriti Bachao Manch, whereas claiming that the Jama Masjid positioned in previous Bhopal’s Chowk Bazar locality was constructed within the nineteenth century on a Shiva Temple, has sought from the state authorities, an in depth archaeological survey of the mosque.

The outfit’s head Chandrashekhar Tiwari met the state’s dwelling minister Narottam Mishra in Bhopal on Thursday and submitted a memorandum, demanding detailed survey of the Jama Masjid.

Tiwari can be getting ready to file a petition within the native courtroom in Bhopal over the difficulty within the coming days.

“We’ve submitted a memorandum to the home minister in Bhopal on Thursday, demanding detailed archaeological survey of the Jama Masjid. Next we’ll petition the court in Bhopal, seeking survey and excavation in the Mosque to bare the history of the mosque having been built over a Temple called Sabha Mandap,” Tiwari instructed The New Indian Express on Thursday.

“What has been stated by us in the memorandum to the home minister and what will be mentioned in the petition in the coming are not based on any fanciful thinking, but actually is based on facts mentioned in the Hayate-I-Qudsi (book on Bhopal’s first woman ruler Nawab Qudsia Begum),” he mentioned.

The girl ruler (1819-1832) constructed the Jama Masjid and Gohar Mahal Palace in Bhopal. 

In the e book on her life, “It has been talked about that the work on constructing the Jama Masjid in Bhopal began in 1832 and whole mosque was in-built 1857. It has additionally been clearly talked about in that very e book that the mosque was constructed on the identical land the place a Hindu Temple often called Sabha Mandap had already existed.

“We hope that the state government helps us and every Hindu in knowing the actual truth about Bhopal’s Jama Masjid having been built on the ruins of the Hindu temple,” Tiwari mentioned.

Importantly, earlier than Tiwari took up the difficulty on Thursday, the identical situation with comparable demand was raised on social media by one other proper wing Hindu outfit, Hindu Dharma Sena.

Yogesh Agrawal, the Jabalpur primarily based state president of the Hindu Dharma Sena, had raised the difficulty of the Jama Masjid in Bhopal, having been constructed on the ruins of a Shiva Temple referred to as Sabha Mandap.

Agrawal is identical saffron brigade chief, who few weeks again, had demanded ban on entry of non-Hindus on river Narmada ghats in Jabalpur.

Meanwhile, the ruling BJP’s state spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi mentioned the Hindu outfit’s demand, if supported with concrete proof, must be mentioned on the highest degree.