The Hindu : Abandon mandir, masjid issue: Krishna Iyer

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Sunday, Mar 03, 2002

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Abandon mandir, masjid issue: Krishna Iyer

KOCHI MARCH 2. The former Supreme Court judge, V.R. Krishna Iyer said here today that Gujarat, the hallowed land where the Mahatma was born, was now defiled by the demonic atrocities the like of which, since the bleeding Partition days, India had never seen. Hindus and Muslims, men, women and children in pathetic situations and innocent numbers, have suffered dreadful death in a manner no human tongue could adequately tell, no civilised soul could compassionately conceive, he said.

He said that judgment had fled to brutish beasts and criminal crowds which, robbed of reason and maddened by fanatic passion, had in savage rush blasphemed in cold criminality all great religions. "One billion Indians must, at this moment of agony, command in one voice, without reservations, that communalism, whose disastrous consequences are beyond control, shall be jettisoned from our soil, expurgated from India's secular geography because pathological godism is a national killer syndrome," he said.

Mr. Iyer requested every segment of society, every constitutional instrumentality to awake, arise and stop not till every symbol, manifestation and manipulation of seeming religion and bigoted theology, in its violence and vulgarity was extinguished. The people, through the Supreme Court, should make a formal declaration, on the initiative of the Union Government, that the issue of reconstruction of the Babri masjid and the building of a Ram temple be bindingly abandoned with the courts imprimatur, he added.

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