Ajmer Sharif Dargah. (Express Archive Photo)
A time aft a Rajasthan tribunal issued announcement to Centre and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) successful a petition claiming that the iconic Ajmer Sharif Dargah is connected a Shiva temple, Kashmiri leaders Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Lone expressed disbelief astatine the litigation.
In a station connected X, erstwhile main curate and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti referred to the announcement claiming that a erstwhile main justness of India had “opened the Pandora’s box” done his ruling, “sparking a contentious statement astir number spiritual places”.
“Despite a Supreme Court ruling that the presumption quo should beryllium maintained arsenic it existed successful 1947, his judgement has paved the mode for surveys of these sites perchance starring to accrued hostility betwixt Hindus and Muslims,” she said, claiming that caller communal unit successful Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, was “reminiscent of the partition days”.
“First mosques and present Muslim shrines similar Ajmer Sharif are being targeted which tin effect successful further bloodshed,” she said. “The question remains – who volition instrumentality work for perpetuating this communal unit reminiscent of the partition days?”
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Lone besides questioned the notices, saying that successful this property of exertion and artificial quality “our tendency for invention seems to beryllium each invested successful our obsession to invent hidden temples”. He besides described the civilian suit “in pursuit of a temple supposedly hidden determination successful the Ajmer Dargah Sharif” arsenic “yet different shocker”.
“As we bid bully bye to 2024, we are successful the property of Artificial Intelligence. The tech age. And arsenic Indians fto america beryllium honest. We person not contributed to immoderate technological revolution. Yes we person the resources to marque usage of them by buying them. But technological innovation. No. None. Not adjacent remotely. Our Indian tech gyration is arsenic users not arsenic inventors,” Lone posted connected X.
A important conception of the educated colonisation is applauding the suit, helium claimed.
“I was precocious successful Dubai and had the accidental to spot magnificence successful the signifier of architecture of the temples that person been built here. What an oasis of tolerance and communal respect Dubai has turned retired to be. So bully it is. Literally each nationality is present and successful however an orderly mode they live,” helium said.
He claimed that successful India “electoral victories person travel astatine a cost, which person near this state soulless”.
“This state erstwhile defined by its soulfulness is tragical (sic), present soulless and successful hunt of a soul,” helium said. “And Ajmer of each the places symbolises spiritualism. It is the destination of each faiths, wherever each converge irrespective of religion, caste, creed. A unsocial content and spot successful the spiritual deliverance of that large spot of spirituality.”