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SC stay on Ayodhya verdict by a week evokes mixed reactions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court directive to Allahabad High Court to defer the Ayodhya title suit verdict on Thursday evoked mixed reactions from political parties with Congress welcoming it, BJP saying it will react after the judgement is pronounced, while CPM and VHP expressing doubts about possibilities of reconciliation.
"We will wait for the High Court verdict to come out and then react to it," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
The Supreme Court stayed for a week the verdict and will hear the plea for deferment of the judgement on September 28.
The Court issued notices to the contesting parties on the petition filed by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chand Tripathi challenging the order of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court order refusing to defer the verdict in the 60-year-old Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit dispute.
Congress, however, hailed the apex court's order, saying it always gave first priority to a solution arrived at through mutual agreement.
"The Supreme Court has given the order with good intentions and everybody should welcome it. Congress has always believed that the first priority is that the issue is resolved through mutual understanding, goodwill and appreciating the feelings of one another.
"If it is not possible, the verdict of the court should be acceptable to all. We believe the court has given the order keeping this spirit in mind and everyone should welcome this," party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said in reply to questions on the SC order.
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury appeared unhappy with the delay in judgement, which was scheduled to be pronounced tomorrow.
"Negotiations and reconciliation are always welcome but the point is, in all these years this has not been achieved. How can one expect to achieve this, that too within a week?" Yechury told reporters.
"How much we may wish that it will happen and if really it happens it is very good. But in that pretext, I do not think we can go on and postpone an issue which can be counter-productive. That we don't want to happen. So we are appealing that no one should get provoked. Whatever the judicial verdict, in a secular democracy everyone should accept it," he said.
However, right-wing VHP expressed disappointment over the stay order on the judgement and ruled out conciliation as a means to solve the dispute.
"Moves of conciliation are unacceptable to all the parties involved...previous meetings to resolve the issue through talks have remained futile. The option of talks is not open so far," VHP President Ashok Singhal told reporters here.
Singhal said the delay in pronouncement of the verdict on the 60-year-old case was akin to "making a mockery of the feelings of the people".
He said a meeting of 45-member Sant Ucchadhikar Samiti (saints' high-powered committee) will be held here tomorrow and an agitational programme could be finalised against the backdrop of the SC order. He did not specify further.
Questioning the reason behind staying the verdict of the Special Bench, Singhal said "a non-entity" managed a stay when the nine major parties in the title suit are against conciliation...it is merely an effort to postpone things."
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SC stay on Ayodhya verdict by a week evokes mixed reactions
New Delhi: The Supreme Court directive to Allahabad High Court to defer the Ayodhya title suit verdict on Thursday evoked mixed reactions from political parties with Congress welcoming it, BJP saying it will react after the judgement is pronounced, while CPM and VHP expressing doubts about possibilities of reconciliation.
"We will wait for the High Court verdict to come out and then react to it," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
The Supreme Court stayed for a week the verdict and will hear the plea for deferment of the judgement on September 28.
The Court issued notices to the contesting parties on the petition filed by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chand Tripathi challenging the order of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court order refusing to defer the verdict in the 60-year-old Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit dispute.
Congress, however, hailed the apex court's order, saying it always gave first priority to a solution arrived at through mutual agreement.
"The Supreme Court has given the order with good intentions and everybody should welcome it. Congress has always believed that the first priority is that the issue is resolved through mutual understanding, goodwill and appreciating the feelings of one another.
"If it is not possible, the verdict of the court should be acceptable to all. We believe the court has given the order keeping this spirit in mind and everyone should welcome this," party general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi said in reply to questions on the SC order.
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury appeared unhappy with the delay in judgement, which was scheduled to be pronounced tomorrow.
"Negotiations and reconciliation are always welcome but the point is, in all these years this has not been achieved. How can one expect to achieve this, that too within a week?" Yechury told reporters.
"How much we may wish that it will happen and if really it happens it is very good. But in that pretext, I do not think we can go on and postpone an issue which can be counter-productive. That we don't want to happen. So we are appealing that no one should get provoked. Whatever the judicial verdict, in a secular democracy everyone should accept it," he said.
However, right-wing VHP expressed disappointment over the stay order on the judgement and ruled out conciliation as a means to solve the dispute.
"Moves of conciliation are unacceptable to all the parties involved...previous meetings to resolve the issue through talks have remained futile. The option of talks is not open so far," VHP President Ashok Singhal told reporters here.
Singhal said the delay in pronouncement of the verdict on the 60-year-old case was akin to "making a mockery of the feelings of the people".
He said a meeting of 45-member Sant Ucchadhikar Samiti (saints' high-powered committee) will be held here tomorrow and an agitational programme could be finalised against the backdrop of the SC order. He did not specify further.
Questioning the reason behind staying the verdict of the Special Bench, Singhal said "a non-entity" managed a stay when the nine major parties in the title suit are against conciliation...it is merely an effort to postpone things."
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SC stay on Ayodhya verdict by a week evokes mixed reactions
