High Security At Aurangzeb Tomb In Sambhajinagar After Hindu Outfits ‘Babri-Like Fate’ Threat

Sambhajinagar/Hyderabad, Mar 17 (Maxim News): Heavy security deployed at Aurangzeb’s tomb in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar amid Hindu outfits Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal’s threat of a “Babri masjid-like fate” if its demand to remove the structure is not met by the state government.

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Security personnel were seen stationed at the Aurangzeb tomb on Monday. Bajrang Dal members also staged a protest in front of the Nagpur district Collector’s office on Monday over their demand to remove Aurangzeb’s tomb.

Bajrang Dal leader Nitin Mahajan on Sunday demanded the removal of the tomb of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Maharashtra’s Sambhajinagar, warning that if the government does not act, the tomb will face the same fate as the Babri Masjid.

The Babri Masjid, a mosque located in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, was demolished on December 6, 1992, by a large group of Hindu activists called ‘kar Sevak‘.  The demolition was led by VHP, Bajrang Dal, and other organizations. In the years that followed, legal battles over the ownership of the site continued, culminating in a 2019 Supreme Court ruling that awarded the land to Hindus for the construction of a Ram Mandir (temple) while directing that an alternative plot of land be provided to Muslims for the construction of a mosque.  The construction of the Ram mandir is now underway at the site of the former Babri Masjid.

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“In Sambhajinagar, a (Aurangzeb’s grave) grave is being worshipped.  The grave of Sambhaji’s murderer is being built.  When such graves are worshipped, then the society also develops in that manner.  At that time, we were helpless, but now Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal are demanding that it should be removed.  today, we demand to the government that it should be removed, we will greet the government if they remove it, but if that does not happen, then VHP and Bajrang Dal will come out on the streets and launch a huge agitation, “Mahajan said.

High Security At Aurangzeb Tomb

Mahajan further stated, “And we know what happens when the Hindu community carries out an agitation concerning its existence, we all saw what happened in Ayodhya to remove the Babri structure if the government does not remove the grave, then we will do Karseva and do so ourselves.”

Earlier, BJP leader and Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh had written to Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat seeking detailed information on the funds spent by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on the maintenance of Aurangzeb’s tomb.  Singh’s letter, dated March 15, requested an itemized breakdown of expenses incurred over the year including maintenance, security, and other related costs.

Reacting to the controversy, Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Monday said that Bajrang Dal and VHP don’t want the people of Maharashtra to live peacefully.  

“They (VHP and Bajrang Dal) are left with nothing else to do.  They don’t want the people of Maharashtra to live peacefully.  They want to slow the development pace of the state.  I would like to say to them that Aurangzeb was here for 27 years, and he was not able to do anything to the state, now, what will they get after the removal of his grave,”

Congress national spokesperson Atul Londhe Patil said that the situation is tense in Maharashtra, adding that law and order have collapsed in the state and listing issues that he said the government was hiding. (Maxim News)

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