Minority panel chief not for review plea of Ayodhya verdict
The HinduFiling a review petition against the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict will not be in the interest of Muslims and will “harm” the unity between the two communities, National Commission for Minorities chairperson Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi said on Sunday. “A review petition should not be filed at all because all sides, including the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, had promised that the verdict given by the Supreme Court will be respected,” Mr. Rizvi said. He wondered what was the point of the Muslim bodies in filing a review petition if they were also saying it would be rejected “100 per cent.” “The common Muslim of this country is not in favour of a review petition because he or she does not want that matters which have been settled are again raised and the community gets caught up in such things,” the NCM chief said. The board, after a meeting in Lucknow, had also said it was against accepting the five-acre alternative land given for a mosque as it “will neither balance equity nor repair the damage caused.” The Maulana Mahmood Madani-led faction of the Jamiat, however, has said filing a review would not be fruitful.