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LUCKNOW: Creating a few ripples, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, on Saturday, called Gyanvapi the real embodiment of Lord Vishwanath himself. He said it was ‘unfortunate’ that people associated the name with a mosque, referring to the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi.
“Unfortunately, people call Gyanvapi a mosque, but it is actually ‘Baba Vishwanath’ (Lord Shiva) himself,” said Yogi while addressing the inaugural session of an international seminar on the ‘Contribution of Nathpanth in the Creation of a Harmonious Society’ at Deendayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University.
CM Yogi’s statement has come close to the order of the Varanasi court on the Gyanvapi case on Thursday, wherein, the court rejected a petition from the Hindu side seeking repairs to the basement of ‘Vyas Ji ka Thekhana’ on the Gyanvapi mosque premises.
Later, the CM’s remarks were posted on his official social media handle as: “Today people call Gyanvapi a mosque in other words, but Gyanvapi is actually Lord Vishwanath personified.”
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