“Gyanvapi: When the then UP Chief Minister and SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav halted Puja at ‘Vyasji Ka Tehkhana’ in 1993”, Organiser, January 31, 2024:
It was in 1993, the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav stopped the puja at the Gyanvapi complex. The move came soon after the disputed structure in Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992.
After being voted to power, he decided to halt the puja. Before 1993, puja was performed at the Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal within the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex every day. In the year 2003, five women came forward and filed a petition seeking permission to perform puja at the Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal within the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex.
Senior Advocate Hari Shankar Jain, who represented the Hindu side in the Gyanvapi case, said to the Organiser that the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) Government took action in 1993 by placing iron fences around the site and halting the puja activities. He had ordered to stop the puja of Vyasji, Ganeshji, and Hanumanji.
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