LUCKNOW: As the state tourism department went ahead with operation demolition on the 2.77 acre land acquired by it last October just outside the disputed shrine in Ayodhya the 3rd Sunni central Waqf board and Mohammed Hashim moved the high court on Tuesday demanding that the construction of security wall encircling the disputed property be stopped the portion of the wall already constructed be brought down and the state government be punished for violating the high court’s order for maintaining the status {quo with respect to the disputed Property.

The Waqf board as well as Hashim both parties in the original suits pending before the high court in connection with the temple mosque dispute have alleged that as the state government was also a party in the pending suits it was bound by the high court’s stay orders issued in 1989.The notices of all the three applications the third demanding backing of the Faizabad additional district magistrate Umesh Tewari as receiver of the disputed property and reinstatement of the head priest Baba Lal Das sacked by last month were served on the state governments standing council The applications will be disposed of by the court on Tuesday.

Meanwhile the tourism department workers guided by Bajrang Dal supremo and local MP Vinaya Katiyar and senior VHP leader had by late Monday evening demolished most of the structures on the part of the acquired land on which the pro-posed Rama temple is to be constructed.

While the VHP men themselves removed exhibits and other materials from the ADhira Madeskatha Mandap and dismantled the structure laborers engaged by the government threw down the laminating parts of the Sanka Mochari temple and a part of the Shaskshi Gopal temple on which the proposed Rama Temples o be constructed. The idols kept in Sakshi Gopal Temple were removed to another portion in the building and the idol of Hanumanain the Sankat Mochan temple was to be removed to another site the VHP sources said some senior leaders of the VHP had arrived in Ayodhya to finalize their strategy for the immediate future Ashok Singhal was expected any time.

The Vishwa Hindu sources here said that removal of encroachments around the disputed structure had created major hurdles in the way of temple construction. All the structures removed had come up during the last 30-40 years and their owners had given them permission to the VHP and Nyas to dismantle them.

While hard-liners in the VEP like Vinaya Kativarare dragging flattening of the land recently acquired by the state government for tourism purpose and construction of Ram Diwal amounted to starting construction of Rama Temple pragmatic VHP leaders are not in favor of an immediate assault on the disputed structure.

The VHP in all likelihood would announce beginning of kar sewa for construction of Rams Katha Park on the 42 acres of land leased out to the RJB Nivas.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 3, 1992