Hyderabad: A day after Kanchi Shankaracharya said that Muslim religious leaders were prepared to hand over the disputed site in Ayodhya to Hindu religious heads, All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said on June 9 that no such assurance had been given.

"No prominent Muslim organisation has given assurance that the land can be given for the construction of a temple. The statement given by Shankaracharya is not correct", Sayeed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, spokesperson of AIMPLB said.

"There is no change in our stand that court verdict should be binding on all parties", Ilyas, who was to participate in the three-day Jamaat-e-Islami Hind conference, said.

Referring to the Shankaracahrya's remarks that the credit for installing Ram Lalla idol at the makeshift temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya should go to former Prime Minister, Narasimha Rao, Ilyas said "such statements are given to gain political mileage for one political party. It is unfortunate."

"It does not suit a person of his stature to issue such a statement in an election year," he added.

PTI