The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) wants the government to allow prayers in mosques which are currently protected historical monuments, and where no namaz has been offered in decades.
Worried that this would trigger off a spate of such demands and inflame communal passions, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was initially reluctant. However, after the NCM raised the matter with the Culture Ministry, the ASI has been asked to carry out a survey of the upkeep of some 31 mosques in Delhi. The contention is that these protected monuments under the ASI are poorly maintained, and opening them up for religious use would incentivise the local community to conserve them better.
However, sources said, there are serious security concerns given that the Union Cabinet affirmed in 1991, 1992 and as recently as at a 2009 meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security that revival of worship in protected monuments will not be permitted. Already, according to the ASI, there are nine mosques in Delhi where prayers are illegally offered.
INDIAN MUSLIMS LIVE IN POVERTY AND RELY ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO GET MONEY TO MAINTAIN THESE MOSQUES? SAUDI ARABIA?
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