Rampur
\nSamajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Wednesday said he fears the Taj Mahal would meet the same fate as Babri Masjid, while retorting to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Vinay Katiyar\u2019s statement describing the Taj Mahal as a \u201cHindu temple\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Babri Masjid can be destroyed, then any building in the country can be pulled down. In such a situation, it will be no surprise if the Taj Mahal is also destroyed some day. If Babri Masjid was demolished in the name of Ram Mandir, then these people can do anything,\u201d Azam Khan told ANI.<\/p>\n
If Babri Masjid was destroyed as people believed there was a temple, then no place of worship in the country was safe, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the temple-mosque issue at that time, there was a High Court and the Supreme Court stay, but still the mosque was destroyed. I firmly believe that the Taj Mahal is set to meet that same fate. But because there is so much international attention on the issue, the monument is still standing, \u201d Khan said, referring to the 1992 destruction of the 16th-century mosque built on Mughal Emperor Babur\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n
Katiyar courted controversy on Wednesday when he claimed that the Mughal mausoleum, Taj Mahal, was a Hindu temple and that its name should be changed. He said that the Taj Mahal was known as Tejo Mahal and had a \u2018Shivlinga\u2019, which was later removed from the monument.<\/p>\n
Katiyar\u2019s statement comes a day after, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath gave a clear snub to BJP MLA Sangeet Som for stirring the Taj Mahal controversy, stating that \u201cit does not matter who built it and for what reason; it was built by blood and sweat of the Indian labourers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rampur Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Wednesday said he fears the Taj Mahal would meet the same fate as Babri Masjid, while retorting to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Vinay Katiyar\u2019s statement describing the Taj Mahal as a \u201cHindu temple\u201d. \u201cIf Babri Masjid can be destroyed, then any building in the country can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8031,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8029\/revisions\/8031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}