Varanasi court's order in Gyanvapi Masjid case will destabilise society: Asaduddin Owaisi
India Today
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi rebutted Varanasi court's order in Gyanvapi Masjid case during a press conference.
At the outset of the Varanasi court's order allowing Hindu worshippers' suit, seeking permission to offer prayers to Hindu deities at the Gyanvapi Masjid complex, Asaddudin Owaisi rebutted the judgement. Implying that the order was impugned and that the Anjuman Islamia Masjid Committee's plea should not have been rejected, Owaisi said that he was scared of what was happening in the country.
It may be noted that Owaisi is an advocate by qualification and the AIMIM shared 'Barrister' Owaisi's press conference regarding the Gyanvapi Masjid case.
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Owaisi admitted that everything he had feared was happening before his eyes and that the order of the Varanasi court would call for disharmony and series of similar litigation.
"Now, after today (Varanasi court's order), a new cycle of litigation will begin," Owaisi said while noting that the development would push society towards the '1980s and 1990s'.
"God forbid if we re-enter the '1980s and 1990s', destabilisation will prevail," the AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) chief said.
Contradicting district judge Ajay Krishna Vishvesh's order allowing the maintainability of the suit, the AIMIM said that he hoped that the Varanasi court would deal with the case differently.
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