Gyanvapi Masjid Imam Abdul Batin Nomani speaking at the conference organised by Jama’at-e-Islami in Kozhikode on Tuesday | Photo: The New Indian Express
Kozhikode: All of the Sangh Parivar's claims regarding the Gyanvapi Mosque are false, according to the mosque's imam, Abdul Batin Nomani, who spoke in Kozhikode on Wednesday.
At the Jama'at-e-Islami fraternity conference, Nomani stated that there is no reference of a temple in Varanasi's history where the mosque now stands.
“What is now propagated as the area where pooja was performed is actually a place near the mosque where the properties of the temple were stored,” he said, the New Indian Express reported.
In his inaugural speech, Jama'at-e-Islami national amir Syed Sadathullah Hussaini stated that attacks on mosques in the country will ruin not only Muslims but the country as a whole. “The chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states are competing with one another in spreading hate. There are thousands of acres of land that have been encroached but mosques are being demolished at night alleging that they are built on encroached land,” he said.
The conference is a declaration that people are not ready to surrender, he said.