Tribune News Service
Lucknow, October 11
Rejecting the proposal of a group of eminent Muslims to hand over the disputed 2.77 acres in Ayodhya to the Supreme Court as a goodwill gesture, All-India Babri Masjid Action Committee (AIBMAC) convener Zafaryab Jilani said they had no say in the matter.
Speaking to mediapersons today, Jilani said: “I may know who Lt Gen Zamir Shah is, but how many know him? Who are they to offer the Ayodhya land as a goodwill gesture? Does the larger Muslim population know anything about them? I wonder what their agenda is and I don’t care what they have to say in the matter. Not even 0.1 per cent Muslims know about them.”
The forum “Indian Muslims for Peace”, which is a cross-section of Muslims, including retired bureaucrats, soldiers, lawyers, journalists, doctors and businessmen, on Thursday proposed an out-of-court settlement in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi dispute maintaining that it was the only solution that could make both Hindus and Muslims happy as no party would feel aggrieved.
Accepting that they had no stake in the dispute, the eminent Muslims said they would submit a resolution to the Ayodhya mediation panel formed by the Supreme Court.
Rebuffing the initiative, Jilani said, “They are simply a group of retired government servants with no say in the matter.” As the main speaker at Thursday’s meeting, former Indian Army Deputy Chief Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah (retd) had observed that after 40 years in the Army he had come to the conclusion that war could never offer any solution.
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