Muslims in Ayodhya pine for jobs: Babri litigant
January 25, 2022 12:00
As election fever grips the temple town, Muslims in this renamed district are focusing on development and employment matters and feel the Ram temple issue is "dead" and political parties should move on and concentrate on people-centric issues.
"In Ayodhya, Hindus and Muslims live together. The district should have better roads, parking facilities and factories also," Iqbal Ansari, who was an independent litigant and son of one of the oldest litigants in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri mosque dispute case Mohammad Hashim Ansari, told PTI.
"There are thousands of temples here, one more (Ram temple) is being constructed," he said and added, "Now, our youth need employment. There should be development as now Ayodhya is a district".
"The temple-mosque issue is no more here. Muslims did not say anything about the court's judgment and accepted it. Now is the time to talk about employment and development," he said.
Praising Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Ansari said, "He has broken years of record by making the state riot-free. There was no riot in the last five years".
Haji Mehboob, 76, who resides near the Ram Janmabhoomi Police Station and was another prominent litigant in the Ayodhya title suit case, said whatever the government says this time there will be a "change".
"Sarkar jo bhi gana gaye, is bar sarkar paltegi," (The government will change this time), he said.
About the political atmosphere in Ayodhya, he said this time the Samajwadi Party has a good chance and its leader has raised all issues related to the common people, who want better living conditions and jobs for their wards. Hamid Zafar Misam, a resident of Rath Haveli road, said that due to COVID-19 the middle class has suffered a lot and the government did nothing considerable for them.
"They remained entangled in paying their electricity bills, loan installments and no considerable relief was given to them. The doctors with big degrees quarantined themselves and those who helped people were the one called quacks," he said.
"People died not only due to Covid but also due to heart attacks and other health problems as OPDs were closed. For progress, what we need is employment and medical facilities here," Misam said.
About Adityanath not contesting from here after initial activeness shown here, Misam said, "wo bhag khade hue yahan se," (he fled away from here). -- PTI
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