CM Yogi Adityanath said that the Gyanvapi complex cannot be called a mosque.
Amid the ongoing dispute between the Hindu and Muslim sides over the Gyanvapi mosque issue, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the Gyanvapi complex cannot be called a mosque. In an interview with the news agency ANI, CM Yogi said that the Muslim side should accept its historical mistake and propose a solution. When asked about the solution for the Gyanvapi and Kashi Kashi Vishwanath Temple issue, the Uttar Pradesh CM said, “If we call it masjid, then there will be a dispute. One should be able to see. What is Trishul doing inside the masjid? We have not kept it there, right? There is a jyotirlinga. There are symbols of deities inside the premises. The walls are shouting and saying. And I believe that this proposal must come from the Muslim community admitting that there has been a historic mistake, and we believe that the blunder should be corrected. “Several petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court, Allahabad High Court and Varanasi Court alleging that the mosque was built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb by demolishing the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in the 16th century.A Varanasi-based lawyer, Vijay Shankar Rastogi, had filed a petition in the lower court claiming illegality in the construction of the Gyanvapi mosque and sought an archaeological survey of the mosque. This came in December 2019 after the Supreme Court verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title dispute.
