Asaduddin Owaisi, the leader of AIMIM, said in a moving speech to the Lok Sabha on Saturday that the Babri mosque at the Ram Temple location in Ayodhya will remain there forever. He uttered the phrase “Babri Maszid zindabad” to end his speech.
“My faith that the mosque still exists and will remain at the place where it once stood. Babri Masjid was, is and will remain. Long live Babri Masjid, long live India, Jai Hind,” he said.
The speech’s video was also uploaded to Asaduddin Owaisi’s X account.
In response to a debate in the Lok Sabha about the building of the Ram Temple, Owaisi claimed that the BJP government created the appearance that one faith had won out.
मेरा ईमान कहता है कि जिस जगह पर मस्जिद थी, है और रहेगी, बाबरी मस्जिद थी, है और रहेगी।
बाबरी मस्जिद ज़िंदाबाद, भारत ज़िंदाबाद, जय हिन्द।
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) February 10, 2024
“I want to ask if the Modi government is the government of a particular community, religion or the government of the entire country? Does GoI have a religion? I believe that this country does not have a religion. Through 22nd January, does this government want to give a message that one religion triumphed over the other?” he added.
He claimed to revere Lord Ram but despise the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse.
“What message do you convey to the nation’s 17 crore Muslims?…Am I speaking for Aurangzeb, Jinnah, or Babar?…He went on, “I admire Lord Ram, but I despise Nathuram Godse for killing the man whose last words were Hey Ram.”
He stated the Modi government celebrated what happened on December 6.
On December 6, 1992, right-wing activists destroyed the Babri Masjid.
The contested land should be given to the temple trust so that the Ram Temple can be built, the Supreme Court decided in 2019, over thirty years after the tragedy. Additionally, it requested that a 5-acre area be given to the Muslim side so that a mosque may be built there.