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Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on July 6 rejected Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi's new formula to resolve the Ayodhya tangle, saying there would be no compromise on constructing the mosque at the place where it was, according to a participant.

"We have rejected the proposal," Abdul Mannan, AIMPLB lawyer who attended as a special invitee the working committee meeting of the Board which discussed the seer's proposal, told reporters.

However, the Board's vice president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said the proposals had "not been rejected totally" and the doors for dialogue to resolve the issue would be kept open.

Though Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi's formula was disappointing, it had not been totally rejected as "we feel that process of mutual negotiations should continue", he said.

Sadiq said the seer's first letter to AIMPLB chairman Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi was encouraging, but his second letter received on July 5 in response to some clarifications sought by Nadvi, was disappointing.

It appeared that the seer wrote the second letter under pressure from the Sangh Parivar and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), he said without elaborating.

The vice president said he personally felt that a Board's committee should meet the Shankaracharya shortly to suggest its formula for resolution of the issue.

Mannan said there were several proposals including one which talked about constructing a temple and a mosque at a distance.

PTI