DY Chandrachud’s remarks on Places of Worship Act opened Pandora’s Box: Congress MP Jairam Ramesh
The former chief justice had said that the 1991 law barred changing the nature of a place of worship, but not ascertaining its religious character.
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Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s remarks about the Places of Worship Act in May 2022 “opened a Pandora’s Box”, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday.
In May 2022, Chandrachud had said that although the Places of Worship Act prevented the nature of a religious place from being changed, merely ascertaining the religious character of a place would not violate the law.
The 1991 Places of Worship Act prohibits any changes to the religious character of a place of worship in independent India. The only exception to the law was the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, where a Ram temple is now being built following a Supreme Court.
Ramesh on Saturday referred to a speech by author and former Rajya Sabha MP Rajmohan Gandhi from September 1991 about a bill that went on to become the Places of Worship Act. Gandhi had then said that a key lesson from the Hindu epic Mahabharata was that “those who seek to right the wrongs of history with an attitude of revenge will only produce destruction and more destruction and more destruction”.
Ramesh said on Saturday that Gandhi’s speech was “a masterclass in Indian culture, traditions, history, and politics as well”.
On Sept 12, 1991, the Rajya Sabha debated the...
