Renewed discussions on the Places of Worship Act -religions competed with one another for dominance and the world of democracy, equality and secularism represent two different phases in history
The time when religions competed with one another for dominance and the world of democracy, equality and secularism represent two different phases in history
This understanding is of overwhelming importance at a time when polarization of communities seems to be the aim of much political rhetoric, frequent administrative action and certain government policies. The challenge to the 1991 law comes from the Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Ashwini Upadhyay, whose petition criticizes the cut-off date as arbitrary and the law for barring Hindus, Buddhists, Jain and Sikhs from ‘reclaiming’ their places of worship which were encroached upon by ‘fundamentalist barbaric invaders’. This petition follows one filed by the Vishwa Bhadra Pujari Purohit Mahasangh last year, challenging Section 4 of the same law and believed to be targeted at ‘reclaiming’ places of worship of the minority community in Mathura and Varanasi. The time when religions competed with one another for dominance and the world of democracy, equality and secularism represent two different phases in history. It is up to the people to decide which phase they wish to inhabit.
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