UP CM Yogi claims provocative statements made ‘during jumma namaaz’ creates tensions in Sambhal. SP MLA says not a “Hindu-Muslim” fight, but result of local administration’s actions.
District administration discovered the temple on Saturday during an inspection in connection with electricity theft. Temple reopened after 1978, Nagar Hindu Sabha patron had claimed.
In Episode 1571, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at what the CJI-led bench’s order says, and what it means for Gyanvapi, Sambhal and Ajmer Sharif cases.
Three-judge bench led by CJI hems in lower courts, restricts them from passing interim or final orders, or ordering surveys in disputes concerning places of worship.
‘Sambhal doesn’t have a perfect history, but it has a long history.’ And this Jama Masjid is no ordinary masjid. It’s one of the oldest surviving Mughal mosques in the country.
Responding to violent incidents, Rahul Gandhi has travelled to remote areas in the past 16 yrs, sometimes risking arrest. In the latest case, he was stopped from reaching Sambhal in UP.
If Muslims considered the destruction of temples bad, there should have been an elaborate and pervasive condemnation of it in their literary and oral traditions.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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