And the Judiciary thought its verdict was pragmatic enough..

And the Judiciary thought its verdict was pragmatic enough..

A seething minority, a buoyant majority and the damage that has been inflicted.

 Welcome to the class of Political Insanity, to the class of Theological Disparity and to the class of the Judiciary in an imbroglio.

The last vestiges of the much embattled idiosyncrasy of the existence of the Ram Janmabhoomi and the Babri Masjid has been resolved (sic) as per the verdict of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court or so.

Applause from the Hindutva ideology tottering Bharatiya Janta Party, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Rashtra Swyamsevak Sangh while gloom descending on the faces of the leaders of the Sunni Waqf Board and the common minority in and around the nation.

Pragmatism evaded the verdict on one of the most unflinching issues ever in the dateline of India as a nation. Something which completely transformed the political ideologies and the game of politics, verdict on it came just as a blinding shocker for the minority community.

Righteously what had the Muslims envisaged never ever came to the forefront but yes the litigant fighting over a ridiculous belief well over 5000 years had the audacity to come out and flash unperturbedly a victory sign.  

Who does really care about the facts and evidences put across by the Sunni Waqf Board when we all so unabatedly know about the character of these political stooges; I hope you understood whom am I referring to?

Perhaps it was the duty of the Judiciary to put the biased predicaments at peace, or perhaps in a ridiculement of its own sense of belief the judiciary came out with a verdict to masquerade the nexus between itself and the executive.

Whatever might have been the circumstances, the Muslim community would have had haplessness writ on their faces. Even if the verdict would have been in their favour, the majority would have been left seething. Why?

Echoing the much dramatized sentiments (sic) of the Hindutva leaders, “how can we have a mosque been built at the place which is surrounded by Ram Lala and his kith and kin?”  “The Muslim community is inflicting nails into its own coffin... we would strive ahead with all vigour to prevent a mosque to ever come up at the revered birth place of Ram Lala.”

In the scenario of the verdict tilting in the favour of the majority, which in some sense has happened the Muslims would have been poked fun at unmistakably. All previous statements of the BJP leaders have made the grass rougher and rougher.

The Muslim community has been made to bleed a silent death ever since the 22^nd of December 1949 when the infamous Lord Ram idol was found within the vicinity of the Babri Masjid. However, what really has put me in an amusing dilemma is the fact that the Babri Masjid stood tall from 1527 till December 6^th 1992.

India kept evolving as a nation more or less be it under the Mughals or the British Empire, had literary Hindu scholars like Swami Dayanand Saraswati whose sole aim was to synchronise the chords of the nation again onto the path of Vedic rituals but still Ayodhya existed, still the Ram Lala shared a perfect bonhomie with Babri Masjid. Nobody thought of committing a crime so heinous of destroying a place of worship!

But, sadly as is not the case and on one fine morning of December 1992 the Babri Masjid came crashing down.  What would you’ve expected from the Muslim brethren? Destroy any god damn temple and one would get the answer best suited for this question.

 Even after having survived this blot on their shirt to have not been able to save this revered mosque the Muslim never reverberated with the stinking apathy of the Hindu. Right Wingers might debate till the very end that the minority can never even think of something a la Babri Masjid but, the fact of the matter is that this community was never in the reins of an ailing intelligentsia or that is how i feel.

They could have reacted with the same brick batting, with the same mudslinging at each other and sticking to the ages old idiom of ‘an eye for an eye’.  There ain’t any less number of temples in this nation and amusingly with the number of them present in Ayodhya, if the common Muslim from the adjoining areas considering Ayodhya’s proximity to Muslim dominated districts of Lucknow, Barabanki or the notoriously prominent Azamgarh would have gone on the rampage then, a Mini Palestine would have been created in the heart of the nation.  Also, then Ram would have been confined to the museums or the excavations in Chitrakoot or further down under.

If Lucknow burned in 1992 and Bombay in 1993, it primarily was the outcome of a community venting its fury on repeatedly being termed as an outcast or perhaps an answer to the ostracism of its beliefs. I applaud the Muslims for what they did in 1992 and more so for Godhra 2002, an eye opener for the hooligans of Ayodhya, be it the beleaguered rustic impertinent politicians or the mindless karsewaks who acted as per the whims and fancies of their masters. Godhra is an eyesore for the right wingers, why? The Muslims just did what they felt pragmatic enough.

A three way division of the 66.5 acres of land and the outright quashing of the title owner petition of the Sunni Waqf Board by the justices of the bench of the Allahabad High Court quite sums up the intention of the judiciary. What they claim as a fair and balanced judgement is merely nothing than keeping all litigants at tenterhooks to maintain a so what calm. I personally would give my approval to the judgement which shall rule that the Babri Masjid land should be rightfully returned back to the Muslims. A belief, five thousand years old cannot decide the location of the Sanctum Sanctorum or the Garbha Griha: birth place of Ram.

Concluding on a note which not many would agree to, i’d like the Sunni Waqf Board to step up the pressure to rightfully acquire the land that has been taken away from them. As commoners they’d still have to suffice with the embattled and lame judiciary and their silence is sure to have been mistaken for some toothless wisdom. Sadly it is not the case as the fury seething within.

                            
Devang Chaturvedi