Lucknow, July 15: Had Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswati "not changed" his mind on his proposals to resolve the Ayodhya tangle as contained in his first letter to All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), there was every likelihood of "a positive headway" towards reaching an amicable solution, senior AIMPLB member Maulana Sajjad Nomani has said. "The first set of the Kanchi seer's proposals were definitely worth considering and if he had stuck to them, things could have been different,” he told here yesterday.
"Though the none of the 41 board members, barring its chairman Maulana Rabe Hassan Nadvi, has seen the seer's first set of proposals, the mere fact that a meeting of its working committee was convened reflected that they were worth considering" he said.
Even the board members were of the view that some thing was there to be considered, Nomani said.
But, the second letter of the seer asking the Muslims to "gift the disputed land to the Hindus for construction of a Ram temple sealed the fate of the negotiations,” he said.
The board members were so angry that the meeting on July six last could have ended in only five minutes,” Nomani said.
Bureau Report