Lucknow, July 06: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board today rejected Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi`s new formula to resolve the Ayodhya tangle, saying that there would be no compromise on constructing the mosque at the place where it was, according to a participant. "We have rejected the proposal," Abdul Mannan, AIMPLB lawyer who attended as a special invitee the working committee meeting of the board which discussed the Seer`s proposal, told reporters here.

However, the board`s vice president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq said that the proposals had "not been rejected totally" and the doors for dialogue to resolve the issue would be kept open.

Though Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi`s formula was disappointing but it had not been totally rejected as "We feel that process of mutual negotiations should continue", he said. Sadiq said that the Seer`s first letter to AIMPLB chairman Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi was encouraging, but his second letter received yesterday in response to some clarifications sought by Nadvi, was disappointing.


It appeared that the seer wrote the second letter under pressure from the Sangh Parivar and the VHP, he said without elaborating.

The vice president said he personally felt that a board`s committee should meet the Shankaracharya shortly to suggest its formula for resolution of the issue.

Mannan said that there were several proposals including one which talked about constructing a temple and a mosque at a distance.
Bureau Report