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"Centre's move unwarranted"

Munger (Bihar) March 2. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board today termed as ``unwarranted'' the Vajpayee Government moving the Supreme Court seeking vacation of religious activities in 67 acres around the disputed site in Ayodhya but decided to abide by the court's verdict.

A resolution adopted at the two-day convention of the AIMPLB here said the Government should have exercised restraint as the matter was already pending with the Apex Court.

``When the matter is pending with the Supreme Court, why did the Government move the court seeking vacation of any kind of religious activity in the 67 acres acquired land around the disputed site?'' it asked.

The convention decided to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya issue, the board's national general secretary, Hazrat Maulana Nizamuddin, told reporters here.

Mr. Nizamuddin said his talks with the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, on the Ayodhya issue had not failed. He had asked for some papers from the Sankaracharya on the issue and because of this the talks had not progressed, he said.

Over 600 delegates from different parts of the country, including MP, Gulam Mahmood Banatwala, former MPs, Syed Sahabuddin and Ibrahim Suleman Seth, participated.

The AIMPLB chairman, Sayed Rabe Naqbi, announced that Muslims in India would oppose any attempt to ban cow slaughter through legislation.

Addressing newspersons after the convention, Mr. Naqbi described the latest move to ban cow slaughter as yet another attempt at fuelling hatred among different communities with an ``ulterior motive'' to fulfil the narrow political interests of some people.

He recalled that the British rulers once utilised the issue to drive a wedge between Hindus and Muslims for meeting their own objectives. — PTI, UNI

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