Lok Sabha MP and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that Babri Masjid was and will remain. Following the Supreme Court's decision in November last year, Bhoomi Puja is being organized for the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday.

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are also attending this event. While many leaders and MPs are welcoming Bhumi Puja, there are voices of protest from many circles.

On Wednesday morning, Owaisi tweeted and said - Babri Masjid was, is and will remain inshaAllah. He also used #BabriZindaHai in his tweet.

At the same time, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board issued a press release a day earlier and said that Babri Masjid will always be a mosque. Tweeting this statement, the Muslim Personal Law Board has written - Hagia Sophia is a great example for us. It is unjust, oppressive, shameful to take possession of the land and its status cannot be changed by the verdict of the majority. No need to break your heart. Conditions do not last forever.

However, there has also been criticism on social media from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for comparing the Babri Masjid with Hagia Sophia. People are also calling the board's statement a contempt of the Supreme Court.

A few days ago, Turkish President Rechep Tayyip Ardoआनan announced the conversion of the historic Hagia Sophia into a mosque in Istanbul.

The Hagia Sophia was built nearly 1,500 years ago as a Christian church and in 1453 the Ottoman Empire, which converted to Islam, converted it into a mosque after the conquest.

The Hagia Sophia was converted from a mosque to a museum in 1934 after Mustafa Kamal Pasha, the creator of modern Turkey, declared the country secular.

The decision of the Supreme Court of India

After the verdict in the Ayodhya case, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board filed a review petition in the Supreme Court. Which was rejected by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court had directed the central government to give five acres of land for the construction of the mosque in Ayodhya.

However the Muslim Personal Law Board had said that it would not accept a separate land for the mosque in Ayodhya.

The Babri Masjid was demolished on 6 December 1992. After this, communal violence broke out in many places in the country and around 2000 people were killed. People associated with the Ram temple movement in Ayodhya claimed that the Babri Masjid was built by demolishing the Ram temple and it was here that Rama was born.

In November last year, a five-member bench headed by the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ranjan Gogoi decided to give land to Ramlala. The Supreme Court had directed the government to constitute a trust for the construction of Ram temple. Also ordered five acres of land for the mosque elsewhere in Ayodhya.

Meanwhile, CPI-ML has said to celebrate the protest day on August 5. The party has issued a statement saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is using a religious ceremony as a political platform. The party says that doing so in place of the demolition of Babri Masjid is a crime.

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