Even as all parties in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi title suit are preparing to go to the Supreme Court, the government today maintained that would not take a stand on the issue and the litigants should either accept the court’s order or amicably solve the dispute.
“The government has no stand on this,” Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily told reporters in Mumbai.
The government has adopted a wait-and-watch policy on the Ayodhya dispute and has not taken a stand on the verdict of the Allahabad High Court.
The Congress party, too, wants that all the litigants should either solve the dispute amicably or they should accept the court’s verdict as the final decision.
During the recent meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party had decided that the verdict of the Supreme Court would be final on the issue and if all the concerned litigants in the case wanted to hold talks and solve the 60-year-old dispute, then the Congress might support the effort but would not initiate the process of dialogue.
“The central government was only a statutory custodian of the disputed property. It was a title suit... The government of India was not a party to it,” he said.
Moily stressed that the all the parties should amicably settle the issue.
When asked what would be the Union government’s stand if the litigants in the case decided to appeal in the Supreme Court, the law minister said: “it’s a hypothetical question and I can’t predict what will happen.”
Meanwhile, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has said in his blog that the report by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had been the “clincher” in the judgment of the Allahabad High Court bench.
“At least in so far as the high court judgment is concerned, the clincher has been the report of the ASI. This is a report very painstakingly produced on the directions of the high court itself,” Advani has written in his blog.
