Locations of Worship Act have to be carried out in letter and spirit: Congress

Requested in regards to the row over claims on a mosque in Sambhal and Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s shrine in Ajmer, Ramesh stated, “That is unlucky. The oral observations made by the previous CJI (D.Y. Chandrachud) on 20 Could 2022, appear to have opened a Pandora’s field and the Locations of Worship Act, 1991, handed by each Homes of Parliament and gazetted in September 1991, have to be carried out in letter and spirit.”

On Friday, the opposition occasion reiterated its dedication to the Locations of Worship Act in a decision handed by the Congress Working Committee throughout its over four-hour-long assembly on the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.

“After reiterating its firmest dedication to the letter and spirit of the Locations of Worship (Particular Provisions) Act, 1991, which is being violated openly by the BJP, the CWC mentioned the challenges confronted by the Indian Nationwide Congress following the outcomes of the 4 Vidhan Sabha elections,” the CWC decision learn.

The decision got here days after a violent protest towards a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal claimed 4 lives.

In Ajmer, house to Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s dargah which is visited by 1000’s reducing throughout non secular divides every single day, a neighborhood court docket has issued notices to the dargah committee, the Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Archaeological Survey of India on a plea searching for to declare the shrine a temple.

The Locations of Worship (Particular Provisions) Act prohibits change of character of spiritual locations as they existed as on 15 August 1947.

On 20 Could 2022, the highest court docket made oral observations whereas listening to a dispute involving the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and stated ascertaining the non secular character of a spot of worship was not barred beneath the Locations of Worship (Particular Provisions) Act.