Swamy Vs Acharya: Dharma vs Adharma
hinduonnet.com
CHENNAI, MARCH 6. The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, has criticised the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswathi, for mediating on the Ayodhya issue.
In a statement released here today, Dr. Swamy described Sankaracharya's involvement as the ``most dangerous for India's constitutional process, secularism and rule of law. This dispute for any government was never a religious one for a Sankaracharya to be involved, especially one so close to the RSS and so controversial as Sri
Jayendra Saraswathi''.
He said the dispute ``is primarily whether the rule of law will prevail or whether any mob can alter any dispute in its favour by stealth and terror. The Babri Masjid dispute has been twice altered by stealth and force; in 1949 when the photos of Bhagwan Ram were smuggled into the masjid premises in the darkness of night. That new status quo was maintained till December 6, 1992 when a pre-assembled mob demolished the Masjid itself''.
``Now a new unilateral alteration of the 10-year status quo is being sought by the VHP. This, no constitutionally committed government can allow, either by force or by fraud. An `agreement' to allow the VHP to build on the undisputed land will foreclose the possibility of any option other than to construct the temple on the disputed site as well. Hence, it is mendacious for the Sankaracharya to suggest it as a solution. As for the VHP's assurance to wait and abide by the court orders, the whole country knows how they disregarded their assurance given to Rajiv Gandhi in the autumn of 1989 and to the Supreme Court in 1992.''
The Sankaracharya, Dr. Swamy said, ``can preach and propagate, but not jet-set for intermediation. I condemn it, as well as I condemn those Muslim bodies which have pusillanimously agreed to negotiate, instead of demanding equality before the law and bringing the culprits to book''. |
