Raising concern over selective approach in picking up cases in courts, Onkareshwar Pandey, a renowned Journalist while taking part in a debate over a news channel, said “Whether all the pending cases in district courts have cleared off to which the issues of communal angles like Gyanvapi Masjid are being taken up as top priority?”
“If you have an authority to pick up the cases as per your whims and fancies then you too can maintain that the pending case will be entertained first as the case in the question holds no top priority at all,” he argued.
Pointing out that we actually made such cases very special separating them from others, he said, “If we have decided that the issue is so sensitive and it must be heard on a priority basis, then why should we confine the orders of survey or excavation to only Gyanvapi Mosque? Why not the directives be passed for the survey of mosques and temples in Assam and Manipur. Why is the selecting approach being adopted?”
“We put such cases into priority at a time when the entire country is living through the economic doom, unemployment and inflation as a whiplash of pandemic,” he argued. “If this is to distract the attention of the people from the real issues so that no one can raise questions about the steeply increasing fuel prices, soaring inflation and growing unemployment? No one to raise question of where the country is heading towards?” he maintained.
If there is a trend setting in the country for course correction then, he said, both the communities should be brought to a platform and discuss the wrong being done during Mural era and British rule to put in play correctional measures. “Everything from Mughals invasion to British colonialism should be discussed in length that may help decide to cut ties even with Britain for the atrocities it has committed during the Jalyawala Bagh tragedy,” Onkareshwar quipped.
