Meanwhile, all accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case acquitted by the Special CBI Court in Lucknow on September 30.
In what can be seen as a gesture to promote Hindu-Muslim brotherhood, the first donation for the construction of the mosque in the Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh came from a Hindu.
A Lucknow University law faculty member Rohit Srivastava has donated Rs 21,000 for the mosque at Dhannipur village which earned him praise from mosque trust secretary Athar Hussain.
"I come from a generation that is rooted in syncretism, where religious barriers blur. I don`t celebrate Holi or Diwali without my Muslim friends and they don`t celebrate Eid without me. This is the story of crores of Hindus and Muslims in India. I appeal to members of the Hindu community to come forward and donate for the mosque to send out a message that Muslims are our brothers." Srivastava said.
"The first contribution for the building of the mosque came from a Hindu brother which is an exemplary and heart-warming example of the Indian culture," Hussain said.
The Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) constituted by the Sunni Waqf Board to build the mosque, library, museum, and community kitchen on five acres of land has set up a corpus fund for the project.
On November 9, in a 5-0 unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the disputed 2.77 acre land in Ayodhya will go to Hindus while Muslims will be given a 5-acre plot at an alternate location in the city for construction of the mosque.
The district administration had handed over five acres, as ordered by the Supreme Court to the Waqf Board in August.
In February 2020, the Uttar Pradesh government had announced the allotment of land at Dhannipur in Sadar tehsil of Faizabad, about 25 km from the Ram Janambhoomi complex.
Meanwhile, all accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case acquitted by the Special CBI Court in Lucknow on September 30.
Special CBI Court has observed that the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition was not pre-planned. The accused in the case included BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, former ministers Uma Bharti and Kalyan Singh, among others.
(With IANS inputs)
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