New Delhi: Maulana Arshad Madani, head of prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUEH), on Wednesday said the community pursued the Ayodhya case for 70 years not because of land but for its right.
He also said a decision on filing a review petition against the apex court order will be taken in a meeting of the working committee of the JUEH, which was one of the key litigants in the case, on Thursday. Settling a fractious issue that goes back more than a century, the Supreme Court, in its verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title case on Saturday, said the entire 2.77 acres of disputed land should be handed over to the deity Ram Lalla, who was one of the three litigants in the case. The five-judge Constitution bench also directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya to build a mosque.
“If we wanted 5-acre land then we would not have fought the case for 70 years. Muslims have enough land. We have built mosques on our lands and will continue to do so. The land has been given to the Sunni Waqf Board. If it was given to us, we would have refused,” he said. (PTI)
