NEW DELHI: The Muslim Personal Law Board threatens to launch a countrywide campaign for the reconstruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya: All the 151 executive committee members of the board regarded as the apex and most representative body of the Muslims in the country will meet Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao on December 6 to remind him of his failure in first defending the mosque and then not fulfilling is commitment to the nation about getting the mosque rebuilt on the same Site.
In case, the delegation of the Board is not allowed to meet the Prime Minister, the executive committee members and their sympathizers will court arrest in Delhi, he said.
Prior to the Delhi public meeting which Qureshi chose to describe as an antifascist forum, a campaign will be launched from December 3 to generate awareness amongst the members of the minority community on the Babri Masjid and the betrayal of the Indian government.
The Board has sail that all tide cases regarding the disputed site in Ayodhya be handed over to the Supreme Court and the apex court’s decision should be accepted by the Court. Observers in New Delhi say that the political message of this assertion as well as the timing of the announcement for a possible long drawn agitation against Central Government on the issue of Babri Masjid will have its own political implication.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 12, 1993
