New Delhi: At a meeting held by the district magistrate, the three plaintiffs in the Gyanvapi mosque case have said that they will oppose the mosque management’s suggestion that wuzu can be arranged in a separate spot within the mosque complex. The day before that, DM S. Rajalingam had met the mosque committee, The Times of India reported, which had put forward its alternative plan in line with the Supreme Court’s order.
According to the newspaper, the three plaintiffs said that any alternative which involves making other arrangements within the Gyanvapi complex will be strongly opposed. Instead, they insisted that worshippers at Gyanvapi go to the neighbouring Razia mosque for wuzu.
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On Monday, the Supreme Court had directed the Varanasi administration to find a “congenial arrangement” on the mosque committee’s request, for arrangement for wuzu during Ramzan prayers near the section in the mosque complex where a Shivling was said to have been found during a survey last year.
Earlier, the court had rejected the Gyanvapi Masjid committee’s objection to a petition seeking the right to worship the Shivling claimed to have been found in the mosque complex.