Will fight to protect other places, says JUH’s Maulana Syed Arshad Madani

NEW DELHI: Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Maulana Syed Arshad Madani has said that though Muslim organisations lost the Babri Masjid case, the organisation will continue its fight to protect other places of worship.

The Jamiat had moved the SC opposing a petition that challenged a 1991 law that provides for maintaining status quo ante of August 15, 1947, for places of worship.

“We are citizens of this country and we have the rights over our places. We will continue to protect them till we die. Fate of one case will not be the fate of all cases. We still have faith in the judiciary of the country,” he said. “If we had won the title dispute, we too would have held a grand ceremony to rebuild the mosque,” Madani told ET.


Hours before the groundbreaking ceremony, the AIMPLB tweeted that Babri Masjid would always be a mosque and cited the example of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia.