The Hindu : Govt. hand in glove with VHP: Muslim Board

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Govt. hand in glove with VHP: Muslim Board

NEW DELHI FEB. 7. Expressing anguish over the Centre's move to get the stay on Ayodhya case vacated, the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board today charged the BJP-led Government with being "hand in glove" with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and "befooling the public for its own political ends".

Categorically ruling out the possibility of any talks with the "culprits responsible for the demolition" of the Babri Masjid, the Board said it was still open for a discussion with the Government on the issue.

"The Central Government and the VHP are hand in glove in befooling the general public in this respect...By raking up the issue time and again, the Government wants to divert people's attention from the real issues and, thereby, reap the harvest of the communally-charged atmosphere of hatred and distrust for its own political ends," S.Q.R. Illyas, convener and spokesman of the Board's Committee on Babri Masjid, said here.

In a statement on the eve of the Board's crucial meeting here tomorrow to discuss the Government move, he said: "The Supreme Court had explicitly given its verdict in 1994 in the Ismail Farooqi case that the whole of 67 acres of the acquired land shall remain in the Government's possession till the final decision on the pending title suit".

He said that the dispute could only be solved either by court verdict or amicable mutual discussions. — PTI

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