The UP Congress committee Anti Communal Front said that the judgment highlights India's composite cultural legacy and is an indication of the secular-humanist tradition in Awadh and Faizabad.
Lauding the Ayodhya verdict, the UP Congress committee Anti Communal Front said that the judgement highlights India's composite cultural legacy and is an indication of the secular-humanist tradition that prevailed in Awadh and Faizabad for centuries.
"The three way partition of the disputed site at Ayodhya as envisaged by the High Court judgement should be interpreted as the reinvention of an old secular-humanist tradition in Awadh and Faizabad under which Namaaz and Puja was being held side by side for centuries as an essential element of India’s composite cultural legacy," Convener of the UP Congress committee Anti Communal Front Amresh Misra has said.
Misra who is also a well known historian and the author of a monumental work 1857: The clash of civilisations' said, "certain saffron organisations were trying to create the erroneous impression that there is a unanimous judgment on the issue that a temple was demolished and a mosque was constructed on the disputed spot."
This fallacy has to be dispelled, he said.
Misra said that it is incumbent on responsible sections of the intelligentsia to highlight the fact that this judgment has upheld certain aspects of India’s composite culture.
In a written statement Misra commented that the only point that was unanimously agreed in the judgement was that the idols were placed inside the functioning mosque in the year 1949 and did not appear miraculously.
He said this is a "clear acknowledgement that a criminal Act was committed in 1992."
Mishra said that those fundamentalist groups which are projecting the Judgement as a victory of the 'temple movement' are only pandering to an 'agenda of hate intolerance and communal strife.'
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