“CM Yogi to Rajat Sharma: Muslim leaders should hand over Varanasi, Mathura, Sambhal disputed sites to Hindus”, India TV News, January 25, 2025:
“Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed to Muslim leaders to “show largeheartedness and hand over the disputed sites in Varanasi, Mathura, and Sambhal to the Hindu community.”
At the ‘Pranaam India’ special show at the Mahakumbh Mela site in Prayagraj, Yogi Adityanath was asked why he did not accept the offer of Muslim leaders who wanted to give their Waqf land for holding the Mahakumbh.
The Chief Minister replied, “We are already organising the Mahakumbh. We do not need their largeheartedness (dariyadili) in Prayagraj. Muslim leaders should show their largeheartedness in handing over the disputed sites in Varanasi, Mathura, and Sambhal to the Hindus”.
The Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi, Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura, and the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, said to have been built after demolishing the Shri Hari Vishnu temple, are contentious issues presently before different law courts…….”
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