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Nirmohi Akhara wants Kalam, Deoband in Ayodhya
mediation
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 04:28:08 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
Nirmohi
Akhara, a key party in the Ayodhya legal battle, wants former
president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, spiritual gurus Baba Ramdev and Sri
Sri Ravi Shankar as well as the leading Deoband Islamic seminary
to help achieve a negotiated settlement.
"Now that the torch of peace and harmony has been lit in Ayodhya,
we want popular spiritual leaders of both Hindus and Muslims to
come forward and strengthen efforts for an out-of-court final
settlement without allowing the dispute to be re-ignited before
the Supreme Court where it could just hang fire indefinitely
again," Ram Das of the Akhara told mediapersons in Ayodhya
Wednesday.
He is the secretary of 89-year-old Akhara chief Mahant Bhaskar Das.
The Akhara has shown keen interest in talks initiated by Hashim
Ansari on behalf of Muslims for a final settlement on the vexed
Ayodhya issue after the Sep 30 Ayodhya High Court ruling.
Ram Das said: "It is the duty of these prominent people to make
efforts for resolving the dispute. After all, they are all
institutions with a large following, so their word will matter.
"I am firmly of the view that when such people meet with an open
mind, they will be able to successfully bring the
Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Mosque issue to a close, through an amicable
negotiated settlement, but would also pave way for bringing an end
to India's communal politics."
He, however, declined to divulge any detail of the "compromise
formula" believed to have been prepared by Nirmohi Akhara in
consultation with Ansari and other local Muslims in Ayodhya.
As a reciprocal gesture, Ram Das is all set to join another
prominent Ayodhya seer Mahant Gyan Das to pay a visit to Ansari
Wednesday evening to thank him for taking the lead in showing the
path of peace.
It was 90-year-old Ansari, who chose to wave the olive branch and
walk to the residence of Gyan Das. Gas not only heads Ayodhya's
prominent Hanuman Garhi temple but is also chief of the All India
Akhara Parishad.
The reconciliatory approach followed the Allahabad High Court's
Sep 30 order, dividing the disputed Ayodhya plot into three parts
- two going to separate Hindu parties and one to Muslims.
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