At the heart of efforts to reimagine, reconstruct, and reclaim the past is a power grab that could cost India its pluralist identity.
Gyanvapi mosque, which sits beside the Kashi Vishwanath temple, is seen from a distance in Varanasi, India, April 14, 2024 .
Jain, President of the Hindu Front for Justice, has been the lead petitioner in most mosque dispute cases in recent decades. This strategy is the direct result of the allied public extending full support - physical, emotional, and ideological - to the ruling elites.A cruel reminder of this is the legacy of the demolition of the 16th century Babri mosque more than three decades ago. On December 6, 1992, Hindu fundamentaliststhe mosque on grounds that it was built by Muslim rulers on the ruins of an earlier temple, which they believe to be the birthplace of the Hindu Lord Ram.
Notably, the BJP's divisive politics go against the egalitarian principles of the Indian Constitution, which enshrines social equality and non-discrimination on religious lines. The only exception was the Babri-Ramjanmabhumi dispute. With a clear intention of avoiding disputes over religious places, the act explicitly prohibits the conversion of any religious place to a different religious denomination.
The deliberate move by the highest court of law has paved the way for historical revisionism and communal discord, rupturing the already fraught relations between the two communities.
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