In a dispute involving the Muslim organization Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind, Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind will hold a ‘huge gathering’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoband on May 28 and 29
a mosque located near Deoband
near Qutub Minar.
Approximately 5,000 Muslim organizations will attend the event. The gathering will discuss issues surrounding mosques in Gyanvapi, Mathura and monuments like the Qutub Minar.
Several resolutions are likely to be adopted by Jamiat-Ulema-E-Hind against the ongoing debate about mandirs and mosques.
Former Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind head Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani had urged organisations not to intervene in the Gyanvapi case earlier.
QUB MAIN ROW
Dharamveer Sharma, ex-regional director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), claimed that the Qutub Minar was built by Hindu emperor Raja Vikramaditya, not Qutb al-Din Aibak, to study the direction of the sun.
Furthermore, idols of Hindu deities were said to have been found in the complex.
A team from ASI, including four officers and researchers, visited the Qutub Minar site on May 21. During the visit, ASI officials told Govind Mohan that no excavations had been carried out since 1991.
The decision to excavate Delhi’s Qutub Minar complex has not been made, says a Union minister
Vinod Bansal, spokesman for VHP, said ‘Vishnu Stambh’ was actually Qutub Minar, built using materials from 27 Hindu-Jain temples demolished.