{"id":186942,"date":"2022-05-28T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186942"},"modified":"2022-05-28T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:31:42","slug":"hindus-and-muslims-must-give-up-rigid-positions-on-contested-places-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hindus-and-muslims-must-give-up-rigid-positions-on-contested-places-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus and Muslims must give up rigid positions on contested places of worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/strong>: In the Ayodhya temple case decided in 2019 by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court. It was projected as a law falling within the parameters of the inviolable basic structure of the Constitution<\/strong>. In the present-day circumstances, other such disputes like Kashi-Mathura disputes have come to the picture.<\/p>\n

What are the problems at present?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The masses remember only what a medieval-age despotic Muslim ruler<\/strong> had supposedly done to some ancient shrines in certain holy cities of India. They forgot the tributes paid by India\u2019s spiritual figure<\/strong> of one community to holy places of another community. For example, Freedom-fighter Hasrat Mohani<\/strong> once went to Mathura<\/strong> on Janmashtami<\/strong> and pleaded with Lord Krishna to accept his pilgrimage to Mathura.<\/p>\n

The ongoing developments on the places of worship in India goes against the nation\u2019s professedly secular<\/strong> Constitution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At present, the nationalists are reading the provisions of the statutes in accordance with their ideology. They do not go by jurisprudential discourses<\/strong> on interpretation of statutes. For example, the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act of 1991<\/strong> has acquired an inferior status in present discourse.<\/p>\n

Way Forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n

We should go by the Constitution\u2019s prefatory terminology<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cWe the people of India\u201d should join hands to preserve peace in our beloved nation, no matter what cost is to be paid for it. Both minority and majority community should amicably settle<\/strong> the disputes in the interest of peace in the country.<\/p>\n

There is not solution in obstinacy <\/strong>and fanaticism<\/strong>. Each community whether minority or majority should respect the freedom of religion. Both have to find together a viable roadmap to nationwide peace. The perennial fighting<\/strong> over a few chosen shrines situated in each other\u2019s vicinity is irrational and indefensible.<\/p>\n

The judiciary has a role to balancing competing claims in religious disputes of large magnitude. It forms part of the judiciary\u2019s Constitutional obligations<\/strong>. For example, the Ayodhya dispute Judgment 2019.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s top court decisions in earlier disputes as mentioned above and in the future disputes like the Kashi-Mathura disputes<\/strong> have been\/would be in the interest of peace and harmony. This should not raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cHindus and Muslims must give up rigid positions on contested places of worship<\/strong>\u201d published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 28th<\/sup> May 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: In the Ayodhya temple case decided in 2019 by a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court. It was projected as a law falling within the parameters of the inviolable basic structure of the Constitution. In the present-day circumstances, other such disputes like Kashi-Mathura disputes have come to the picture. What are the problems at… Continue reading Hindus and Muslims must give up rigid positions on contested places of worship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-186942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704812878},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}