NEW DELHI – Hindu extremist group released a controversial Hindu New Yearcalendar, claiming that several mosques, the holy site of Makkah and Mughalera’s monuments are Hindu temples.
The calendar, issued by Hindu Mahasabha Aligarh on Sunday, callsMakkah the Macceshwar Mahadev temple, besides referring to Taj Mahalas ‘Tejo Mahalaya temple’.
Fanning a new controversy, the calendar says the Kamal Maula Mosque inMadhya Pradesh has been called ‘Bhojshala’ and Gyanvapi Mosque in Kashi hasbeen referred to as ‘Vishwanath temple,’ reported The Time of India.
It further termed the demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya as ‘Ram JanamBhoomi’, Qutub Minar as ‘Vishnu Stambh’ and Atala mosque in Jaunpur as‘Atla devi temple’.
Hindu Mahasabha national secretary Pooja Shakun Pandey, while speakingto The Times of India, said that the organisation has pledged to make thisIndia a Hindu Rashtra. She hoped that the government will accept theirdemand and declare the country a Hindu nation.
She claimed that Muslims occupied several Hindu sites, which now will berestored to their original names.
Meanwhile, Imam-e-Eidgah Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahli, who belongsto All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), has rejected all theseclaims as baseless. He said that dubbing the holy site of Makkah a Hindutemple is against the spirit of secularism.
Former MLA from Aligarh, Zamirullaha Khan said such attempts were beingmade to divide the society.
He accused PM Narendra Modi-led government of these attempts. He saidthat the incumbent government believes in the policy of dived and rule.