Kashi Mathura

The BJP may now have to put controversial issues like Kashi and Mathura on the back burner. Religious politics may have to be subtly replaced with the compulsions of a 'political economy'.

Ajmer Dargah chief Syed Zainul Abedin said political parties should try to find solutions to disputes such as in Mathura and Kashi outside the courts.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani on Wednesday said the Muslim side will approach the Supreme Court after pleas challenging the maintainability of a 1991 suit seeking the "restoration" of a temple where the Gyanvapi mosque now stand

A court's decision to hear a plea by five Hindu women for year-round worship rights in Varanasi's Gyanvapi Masjid complex sets in motion another case with overlaps between religion, politics, and the law. The case will now be heard on September 22.

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday welcomed a Varanasi court's verdict upholding the maintainability of a Hindu group's petition seeking worshipping rights in the Gyanvapi mosque compound even as she urged both sides not to "insult each other".

Disputes over the mosque in Kashi or Varanasi and Mathura have been in the headlines in the last month with court battles being fought over the status of these mosques located right next to prominent temples.

After the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the temple town of Kashi appears to be waking up, as are Mathura, Vrindavan, Vindhyavasini Dham and Naimish Dham, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday.

BJP MP Subrat Pathak on Wednesday said that the party may not still get votes of the Muslim community as it has scrapped Article 370, "built temples in Ayodha and Kashi and will build a temple in Mathura".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday asserted that the BJP has kept its word on building the Ram temple in Ayodhya and said that after Kashi, efforts are on to boost development works in Mathura too.

BJP MP Hema Malini on Sunday expressed hope that after Ayodhya and Kashi, her constituency Mathura will also get a grand temple and cited the Kashi Vishwanath corridor.

The Congress on Thursday demanded the removal of Karnataka minister KS Eshwarappa from the cabinet and his arrest for his statement that grand Krishna and Vishwanath temples would come up in Mathura and Kashi respectively after "liberating" them.

Ayodhya Verdict: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the BJP, today said they would not be involved in any call for temples in place of mosques at Varanasi and Mathura.

Uttar Pradesh minister Ompal Nehra has been sacked after his comment that Muslims must give up their claims on mosques in Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi and help build temples there.

The BJP may now have to put controversial issues like Kashi and Mathura on the back burner. Religious politics may have to be subtly replaced with the compulsions of a 'political economy'.

Ajmer Dargah chief Syed Zainul Abedin said political parties should try to find solutions to disputes such as in Mathura and Kashi outside the courts.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani on Wednesday said the Muslim side will approach the Supreme Court after pleas challenging the maintainability of a 1991 suit seeking the "restoration" of a temple where the Gyanvapi mosque now stand

A court's decision to hear a plea by five Hindu women for year-round worship rights in Varanasi's Gyanvapi Masjid complex sets in motion another case with overlaps between religion, politics, and the law. The case will now be heard on September 22.

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday welcomed a Varanasi court's verdict upholding the maintainability of a Hindu group's petition seeking worshipping rights in the Gyanvapi mosque compound even as she urged both sides not to "insult each other".

Disputes over the mosque in Kashi or Varanasi and Mathura have been in the headlines in the last month with court battles being fought over the status of these mosques located right next to prominent temples.

After the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the temple town of Kashi appears to be waking up, as are Mathura, Vrindavan, Vindhyavasini Dham and Naimish Dham, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday.

BJP MP Subrat Pathak on Wednesday said that the party may not still get votes of the Muslim community as it has scrapped Article 370, "built temples in Ayodha and Kashi and will build a temple in Mathura".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday asserted that the BJP has kept its word on building the Ram temple in Ayodhya and said that after Kashi, efforts are on to boost development works in Mathura too.

BJP MP Hema Malini on Sunday expressed hope that after Ayodhya and Kashi, her constituency Mathura will also get a grand temple and cited the Kashi Vishwanath corridor.

The Congress on Thursday demanded the removal of Karnataka minister KS Eshwarappa from the cabinet and his arrest for his statement that grand Krishna and Vishwanath temples would come up in Mathura and Kashi respectively after "liberating" them.

Ayodhya Verdict: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the BJP, today said they would not be involved in any call for temples in place of mosques at Varanasi and Mathura.

Uttar Pradesh minister Ompal Nehra has been sacked after his comment that Muslims must give up their claims on mosques in Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi and help build temples there.