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| Anjuman-e-Adab flays Centre for challenging historicity of Lord Rama | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 30
Flaying the Central Government for challenging the historicity of Lord Rama, the Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman-e-Adab has demanded stern action against those persons who have set a precedent by demanding scientific proof on the matters of faith.
Balraj Bakshi, a noted Urdu Poet and President Anjuman-e-Adab addressing media persons here today said that the government of India has unnecessarily raked up the controversy of Ram’s historicity. He said that the Urdu writers were alarmed at the government of India’s unwarranted and pro- active intervention in religious affairs which is an attempt to lay foundation for further intervention in other religions as well. ‘But what concern us more is that this is an attempt to discredit the secular fabric of Urdu literature and language which is already passing through a period of crisis’, he said.
Sham Sunder Anand Lahr, the famous Urdu writer said that ‘Ram was so firmly entrenched in the Indian society that the great Urdu poet Allama Iqbal has described him as ‘Imaam-e-Hindi’ in one of his celebrated poems. Similarly the famous Urdu poets of their times Brij Narayan Chakbast has rendered translation of Ramayana in Urdu and the work on Rama in Urdu carries immense literary value and are inseparable part of Urdu literary heritage’, he remarked.
Lahr said that the ‘act of the Government of India’s withdrawal of the infamous counter affidavit does not mean that affidavit has gone out of existence and vanished’. What concerns us is that a future historian, say after a thousand years, would after perusal of affidavit, which will always remain a part of the record, conclude that the government of India’s stand in year 2007 was that Lord Rama did not exist. Therefore, it becomes necessary that record must also show that ‘those responsible for challenging, willfully malicious intent, Rama’s existence’, were duly prosecuted, he observed.
Lahr, an eminent Apex Court lawyer, has urged the Centre to provide a copy of the affidavit under Right to Information Act to know the names and identities of those responsible and instrumental in drafting and filing the sacrilegious affidavit so that they could be prosecuted under relevant provisions.
Many Urdu literary luminaries like Raj Kumar Chandan, professor Mohd. Assadullah Wani, Deepak Aarsi, Sheikh Sajjad Hussain and Romesh Rahi were also present in the presidium. |
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