Owaisi urges AIMPLB to move SC against order

REPAIRS TO AYODHYA TEMPLE

Hyderabad: Reacting to a Supreme Court order on the disputed temple built at the historic Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen(AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) must appeal against the order allowing repair of facilities at makeshift Ramlala Temple.

“AIMPLB must appeal against or implead itself in this particular case,” tweeted the MP from Hyderabad shortly after the apex court order. Owaisi, president of AIMIM, is also an executive member of AIMPLB, an apex body of Indian Muslims. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed repairing of covers and providing other facilities at the makeshift Ramlala Temple on the disputed Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhoomi site.

The court said the exercise had to be undertaken by the district collector of Faizabad under the supervision of two independent observers. It may be recalled that the apex court on Friday had asked the Central and Uttar Pradesh governments to make available whatever facilities that could be extended to pilgrims going to Ayodhya to offer prayers at the disputed site.

A bench consisting of Justice Anil R Dave and Justice Kurian Joseph had asked both governments to do whatever was necessary. “The temple needs some facilities. If you can make these available, then do it. If possible to do something, do it,” Justice Dave had told the Counsel representing both the governments. The Uttar Pradesh government, however, said that all the facilities were being made available to the pilgrims and none of them was aggrieved.