"If Gyanvapi Is Called A Mosque...": Yogi Adityanath Amid Row

The comments come at a time when Allahabad High Court is hearing a petition by the mosque committee, challenging a lower court's order for a survey.


  Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's remarks come when the matter is being heard in court


New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has suggested that Muslim society should step up and propose a solution for a "historical mistake" involving the Gyanvapi mosque controversy.

The remarks were made as the Allahabad High Court was deliberating a plea filed by the mosque committee challenging a lower court's decision to allow the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey inside the mosque compound. On August 3, a decision on the petition is anticipated.


The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister stated there will be a disagreement if Gyanvapi is referred to as a mosque in an interview with the news organization ANI, which was included in a podcast with ANI Editor Smita Prakash.

There will be a disagreement if we label it a mosque.I believe that whomever God has blessed with sight should be able to see. What on earth does a trishul (trident) do in a mosque. It wasn't placed there by us. Jyotirlinga,dev pratimas (idols) exist, he declared.

"The walls are shouting and communicating. I believe the Muslim community should make a suggestion that there has been a historical error and that we need a fix, the Chief Minister stated.

Responding to Mr Adityanath's remarks,Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM)leader Asaduddin Owaisi said,"Chief Minister Yogi(Adityanath)knows that the Muslim side has opposed the All India Search Institute survey in Allahabad High Court and the judgment will be delivered in a few days,still he gave a such controversial declaration this is judiciary overreach."

The Gyanvapi compound, which is near to Varanasi's famous Kashi Vishwanath temple, attracted media attention in 2021 after a group of ladies asked a court there for permission to worship gods there.

The court subsequently ordered a video inspection of the facility, at which time an item was found that some believed was a shivling. However, the mosque management committee claimed it was a component of a fountain in the "Wuzukhana" (pool) where people might wash their hands and feet prior to prayers.

The Supreme Court took the case, and in order to stop the issue from getting worse, it closed off the pool.

The mosque committee's suit earlier this year challenging the maintainability of the request to worship Hindu deities inside the premises was dismissed by Allahabad High Court.

Based on a separate petition filed by four of the five women, who claimed that only a scientific survey could determine if the Gyanvapi mosque was constructed following the destruction of a Hindu temple, the Varanasi district court ordered an ASI survey of the mosque.

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