September 25, 2024

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The information about Supreme Court looking for govt’s response on ‘Places of Worship Act’ was momentous and liberal media buried it

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Amidst the surging second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, one information story that seemingly went unnoticed was the Supreme Court looking for the federal government’s response on the extremely controversial ‘Places of Worship Act” introduced and enacted by the Congress government in 1991.A bench led by former Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde issued notice to the Union Ministries of Home, Law and Culture on a plea filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay against various provisions of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act of 1991, asking the central government to respond to it. However, the news of the Supreme Court taking notice of the controversial act was quietly swept under the rug by liberal media and made little to no noise amongst the public, as it didn’t go well with the ‘secular’ agenda.“The Act declared that the character of places of worship-pilgrimage shall be maintained as it was on August 15, 1947 and no suit or proceeding shall lie in court in respect of disputes against encroachment done by fundamentalist barbaric invaders and lawbreakers and such proceeding shall stand abated,” the petition to the Supreme Court learn.Thus with the ball within the central authorities’s courtroom, the Modi cabinet’s response to the plea is prime as to whether Hindus will be capable to reclaim their temples in Kashi and Mathura or not. As a authorities that on the core is a ‘Hindu nationalist’ one, the onus lies on it to make sure that the discriminatory act is junked as quickly as doable, in order to make sure a wave of cultural reclamation is initiated within the nation.The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991 was launched on July 11, 1991, by the Narasimha Rao govt on the centre with a motive to forestall Ram Janmabhoomi-like reclamation actions for different locations by Hindus in India.Although the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute had been exempted from the provisions of the act, the laws successfully acts as a bar upon dedication of all different such disputes throughout the nation.In the current context, this means that even after a verdict within the Ram Janmabhoomi case, it won’t be doable to deliver related property disputes earlier than the Courts in an effort to restore the unique standing of innumerable temples, a lot of them being outstanding ones, that bore the brunt of the Islamic invasion and had been in plenty of instances transformed into Mosques.Read extra: For the Ram Janmabhoomi motion to reverberate past Ayodhya, the federal government should abolish The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991As reported by TFI, after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was instructed by Varanasi courtroom to conduct a survey across the Kashi Vishwanath Temple upon which the Gyanvyapi mosque was forcefully constructed upon — one other petition had been filed in a neighborhood Mathura courtroom looking for a survey of the Jama Masjid in Agra and the Shahi Eidgah Mosque in Mathura to seek out out if idols of lord Krishna allegedly looted from the Mathura construction are buried within the Agra Mosque.Read extra: As ASI proceeds to survey Kashi Vishwanath Temple, a petition filed to unearth stolen idols buried beneath Jama Masjid in AgraProving that the Gyanvyapi Mosque was constructed on the ruins of the Vishwanath Temple shouldn’t be a tedious job for the ASI because the construction and its pillars are seen to the bare eye. However, the one hurdle within the path is the Places of Worship Act 1991. The future plan of action will totally rely upon the federal government’s response and one will be optimistic that maybe the Modi authorities will as soon as once more present the resolve to sort out one other contentious concern — identical to it has accomplished previously seven years.