के.एन.श्रीमाली
डी.एन.झा
के.एन.पणिक्कर
अमिय कुमार बागची
इक़तिदार आलम खान
शीरीं मूसवी
जया मेनन
इरफ़ान हबीब
सुवीरा जैसवाल
केशवन वेलुथात
डी. मंडल
रामकृष्ण चटर्जी
अनिरुद्ध राय
(वक्तव्य की मूल अंग्रेजी प्रति नीचे दी जा रही है)
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Date 1.10.2010
Statement on Ayodhya Verdict
The judgement delivered by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Dispute on 30 September 2010 has raised serious concerns because of the way history, reason and secular values have been treated in it. First of all, the view that the Babri Masjid was built at the site of a Hindu temple, which has been maintained by two of the three judges, takes no account of all the evidence contrary to this fact turned up by the Archaeological Survey of India’s own excavations: the presence of animal bones throughout as well as of the use of ‘surkhi’ and lime mortar (all characteristic of Muslim presence) rule out the possibility of a Hindu temple having been there beneath the mosque. The ASI’s controversial Report which claimed otherwise on the basis of ‘pillar bases’ was manifestly fraudulent in its assertions since no pillars were found, and the alleged existence of ‘pillar bases’ has been debated by archaeologists. It is now imperative that the site notebooks, artefacts and other material evidence relating to the ASI’s excavation be made available for scrutiny by scholars, historians and archaeologists.
No proof has been offered even of the fact that a Hindu belief in Lord Rama’s birth-site being the same as the site of the mosque had at all existed before very recent times, let alone since ‘time immemorial’. Not only is the judgement wrong in accepting the antiquity of this belief, but it is gravely disturbing that such acceptance should then be converted into an argument for deciding property entitlement. This seems to be against all principles of law and equity.
The most objectionable part of the judgement is the legitimation it provides to violence and muscle-power. While it recognizes the forcible break-in of 1949 which led to placing the idols under the mosque-dome, it now recognizes, without any rational basis, that the transfer put the idols in their rightful place. Even more astonishingly, it accepts the destruction of the mosque in 1992 (in defiance, let it be remembered, of the Supreme Court’s own orders) as an act whose consequences are to be accepted, by transferring the main parts of the mosque to those clamouring for a temple to be built.
For all these reasons we cannot but see the judgement as yet another blow to the secular fabric of our country and the repute of our judiciary. Whatever happens next in the case cannot, unfortunately, make good what the country has lost.
Romila Thapar
K.M. Shrimali
D.N. Jha
K.N. Panikkar
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Iqtidar Alam Khan
Shireen Moosvi
Jaya Menon
Irfan Habib
Suvira Jaiswal
Kesavan Veluthat
D. Mandal
Ramakrishna Chatterjee
Aniruddha Ray
Arun Bandopadhyaya
A. Murali
V. Ramakrishna
Arjun Dev
R.C. Thakran
H.C. Satyarthi
Amar Farooqui
B.P. Sahu
Biswamoy Pati
Lata Singh
Utsa Patnaik
Zoya Hasan
Prabhat Patnaik
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Jayati Ghosh
Archana Prasad
Shakti Kak
V.M. Jha
Prabhat Shukla
Indira Arjun Dev
Mahendra Pratap Singh
and Others
समझ नहीं आता आप सभी लोग इस तरह से माहौल खराब क्यों कर रहे हो?
ReplyDeleteअगर फैसला गलत है तो सुप्रीम कोर्ट जाओ, यहां इस तरह की बयानबाजी करके क्या प्राप्त करना चाहते हो?
देश को आप जैसे स्वार्थी बयानबाजों से मुक्ति प्राप्त करने की आवश्यकता है.. कब तक मन्दिर और मस्जिद का नाम लेते रहोगे...
कोई काम नहीं है क्या आप लोगों के पास करने को़?
तर्कसंगत कथन का जवाब इस तरह से दिया जाएगा तो लोकतंत्र का क्या अर्थ ? अगर हताशा पर ‘सहमत’ इस प्रकार प्रतिक्रिया कर रहा है तो इसमें राजनीति हो गयी। जनाब हमारे देश की एक पार्टी तो खड़ी ही इस मंदिर-मस्जिद के मुद्दे पर हुई है। यदि ‘सहमत’ का यह वक्तव्य माहौल खराब कर रहा है तो विहिप का ‘संत समाज’ जो बचे हुए तीसरे हिस्से पर भी अपना दावा ठोकता घूम रहा है, उस कोशिश को क्या कहेंगे ?
ReplyDeletehar tark sangat kathan ka bahut bahut swagat he. SAHAMAT KE TARK bhi kiafi ek tarfa lag rahe hain. yadi kuch tahtyon ko aur ujagar kiya jaye, ASI ki report ke kuch tathyon ko sabhi ke samne laya jaye to virodh acha lagega.
ReplyDeletemanneeye nyayadheesh khan ne jo nirnay diya he us per bhi kuch roshni dali jaye to tark karne me achha lagega
Ashwani Khandelwal.
aSHWINI jI, SABSE PRATHMIK BAATO YAHI HAI KI KYA ADALAT MEN KOII MUQDMA KANOON KE ADHAAR PAR HONA YA CHAHIYE, YA PHIR ASTHA KE ADHAR PAR.PHIR YH SAHMAT KA BAYAN KISI SAHMAT NAAM KE VYAKTI KA NAHI HAI, BALKI DESH KE SABSE BADE PURATATVVIDO, ITIHASKARO AUR SAMAJSHASTRIYON KA HI HAI.
ReplyDeleteASHCHRY HI HAI KI BAKAYDA HALLA BOLTE, KATL-O-GARAT KARTE HUE JINHONE BABRI MASJID KO TODA, UNKA JIKR TAK MUNASIB NAHI SAMJHA GAYA. aDWANI KO AKHIR ADALAT NE HI PAK-SAF KAH DIYA THA.
एकदम सही कहा धीरेश जी आपने। सहमत का बयान तो खुद एएसआई की रिपोर्ट को सामने लाने की बात कर रहा है।
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