Keshav Prasad Maurya Mathura temple statement: In what could have a significant impact on Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022 campaign, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Wednesday dropped a hint that Mathura could be at the center of BJP’s UP campaign.
Significantly, Maurya’s tweet has come just five days ahead of December 6, the date when Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992. The Supreme Court had on November 9, 2019 put an end to the more than a century old Ayodhya Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute. The top court paved the way for the construction of a Ram Temple by a trust at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a ‘prominent’ place in the town.
Mathura Mandir-Masjid row
Meanwhile, the Mathura district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under CrPC section 144 following an announcement by the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha that it will install a Lord Krishna idol at the deity’s ‘actual birthplace’.
The clampdown comes even as another right-wing organisation, the Narayani Sena, has said it will take out a march from Vishram Ghat to Sri Krishna Janmasthan, demanding the “removal” of the mosque.
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