New Delhi: The CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) on March 8 described as
"unwarranted" the court order for excavation at the disputed site at Ayodhya and
warned that this will only exacerbate the situation with the sites at Mathura and
Varanasi being targeted with demands for excavation.
"The right course would be for the High Court to give its verdict on the title deed
suit without straying into matters which are outside the bounds of the judicial
process," the
CPM Polit Bureau said in a statement in New Delhi.
It said the move was unwarranted given the fact that the Bench is hearing the title
suit regarding ownership of land.
"It will not be possible for the ASI (Archaeological Survey of India) to excavate and
come to any conclusion relevant to the title deed suit. Neither will it be possible
to ascertain whether there was originally a Ram temple in the area, which has seen
hundreds of temples being constructed over the centuries," it said.
It cautioned that such a judicial step is fraught with serious consequences in view
of the fact that the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh) maintain there are thousands of mosques, which were actually temples earlier
and demand they be restored.
PTI
