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Indians have moved on, now leaders must: Media
2010-10-01 10:40:00
Last Updated: 2010-10-01 11:27:12
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard, ahead of a potentially explosi...
New Delhi: Gauging the mood and maturity of citizens after one of the most
important judgments in independent India on the emotive Ayodhya dispute, the
country's media has given its verdict: People have moved on, now leaders must.
'A new, resurgent India has emerged from the debris of the violent 1990s,' said
an editorial in The Times of India a day after the court verdict, referring to
the aftermath of the demolition of Babri Masjid on Dec 6, 1992.
'A new generation has come of age since then and it doesn't want to be tied
down
by ancient hatreds. Simply put, a mandir is what is believed by some Hindus to
be Ram's birthplace is not an existential issue for this country, especially
its
youth,' it said.
Most papers also said people at large were fed up of politicians and religious
leaders pitting Ram against Rahim, while appealing to community elders to
ensure
that the matter is put to rest at the earliest, and not simmer.
A three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench had on Thursday
ruled by majority that the place where the Babri mosque in Ayodhya stood,
before
it was razed by Hindu mobs in 1992, was indeed the birthplace of Ram.
It also ruled that the entire disputed land in Ayodhya, a riverside town in
Uttar Pradesh, should be divided among the Sunni Waqf Board, Hindus and the
Nirmohi Akhara, a Hindu sect that were among those who fought the court battle.
The Indian Express said the people of the country were asking the judicial
institutions to address a matter that had become the most divisive political
issue of independent India and had hoped for an outcome that will be peaceful
and forward-looking.
'In this verdict, and in what appears for now to be a measured response to it,
we see that hope in action,' said the paper, adding the cases against those
involved in demolishing the Babri Masjid also needed to be pursued visibly and
energetically.'
The Hindustan Times said: 'There are no losers in the Ayodhya ruling. It is a
milestone confirmation of our secular fabric.' The fact that the unhappy
litigants have decided to move the apex court, it added, suggests the matter
has
been contained within the frames of law.
'In the end, what is of prime importance and deserving both relief and applause
is that the verdict, in no mean way, has been a touchstone moment for Indian
secularism and a definitive step away from the pit of religious
fundamentalism.'
In its editorial, The Hindu said if the overall reaction of the people and from
all sections of the political spectrum has been subdued, much of it has to do
with the fact that the issue does not find much traction any more, unlike the
1990s.
'The majority verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri
Masjid dispute is a compromise, calculated to hold the religious peace, rather
than exercise of profound legal reflection,' the paper, nevertheless, said.
'For too long has the Ayodhya dispute remained an obsession with large sections
of the people. It is to be hoped that after this major, even if not final, step
in judicial process, it will cease to occupy the political stage,' it added.
Ur's
M.K.
"making impossible possible"
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