PTI

Lucknow, May 22

Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq on Sunday claimed that there was no ‘Shivling’ within the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and the phrase was unfold about it to stoke sentiments for the upcoming 2024 parliamentary election.

“All these circumstances are being created due to 2024 election. If you go back in the history, there was no ‘Shivling’ and nothing else in the Gyanvapi mosque. All of this is wrong,” Barq, an MP from Sambhal, advised reporters outdoors the Samajwadi Party workplace.

Barq was right here to fulfill SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.

On Ayodhya, Barq mentioned, “Though a Ram temple is being constructed, I still say that there is a mosque there.”

“Ye takat ke bal-boote par ho raha hai” (This is only a show of energy), he alleged.

“We are being targeted. Mosques are being attacked. The government doesn’t run like this. Government should run with honesty and rule of law. There is a rule of bulldozer, not of law,” he alleged.

An area court docket in Varanasi on May 16 directed the district administration to seal a spot within the Gyanvapi Masjid complicated after counsels representing the Hindu petitioners mentioned a ‘Shivling’ was discovered throughout a court-mandated videography survey.

A mosque administration committee spokesperson disputed the declare, telling a tv channel that the item was a part of a “fountain”.

A day later, the highest court docket directed the district Justice of the Peace of Varanasi to make sure the safety of an space contained in the Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complicated the place a ‘Shivling’ was mentioned to have been discovered and allowed Muslims to supply ‘namaz’ and carry out “religious observances”.