Maoists demand mosque at Babri site
Debabrata Mohanty Posted online: Mon Dec 06 2010, 09:49 hrs
Bhubaneswar : The CPI (Maoist) has given a call to observe Monday, December 6 — when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya 18 years ago — as black day. The outfit has demanded that the mosque should be rebuilt at the same site and those who had demolished it must be punished severely.
In a signed press release issued by the Central Committee of CPI (Maoist), spokesperson Abhay said the Maoists had all along maintained that the land on which the Babri Masjid stood belonged to Muslims and it should be given back to them.
The outfit said “Hindu fundamentalists made the 500-year-old Babri Masjid a controversial site by claiming it as the birth place of Lord Ram and on that pretext many a time instigated communal disturbances in the country killing thousands of Muslims”.
“Demolition of Babri Masjid was the biggest attack by Hindu fascists in the history of our country. The likes of L K Advani, Ashok Singhal, Murli Manohar Joshi, Praveen Togadia, Uma Bharati, Sadhvi Ritambara, who were directly involved in it, were not punished by any court even till today,” the statement sent.
“On 30th September, giving its verdict on the ownership rights of the controversial site, pending for 61 years, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court with its Brahmanical Hindu religious ideology, did injustice to Muslims. Without any historical evidence and archaeological proof, it stated the controversial place to be the birth place of Lord Rama,” it said.
The spokesperson alleged that in recent past, evidence had surfaced, proving involvement of “saffron terrorist groups of the Sangh Parivar” in bomb blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer, Mecca Masjid and the Samjhauta Express.
The Central Committee said all democratic, secular, progressive and revolutionary forces, organisations and parties should conduct meetings and processions and wear black badges on Monday to protest Hindu communalism.
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