Advani urges Supreme Court to allow Ayodhya judgment

SOMNATH - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Saturday urged the Supreme Court to allow a decision on the Ayodhya dispute by the Allahabad High Court, and said people had been waiting for a judgment in the case for over past five decades.

Advani, who visited the Somnath temple here along with former party leader Uma Bharti, said he was not able to understand the apex court’s decision to grant interim stay till Sep 28 on the Allahabad High Court’s pronouncement of verdict on the Ayodhya dispute. The high court was to deliver its verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit on Sep 24.

“I appeal to the Supreme Court that the countrymen have been waiting for the judgment in the case for the last 50 years. I urge the court to take up the matter on Sep 28 and get the judgment delivered through this bench (of the Allahabad High Court),” Advani told reporters.

Advani said he respected the judicial system of the country and added that he had appealed to party workers to maintain calm.

He said people were waiting for the court’s decision on Ayodhya, and litigants too wanted a verdict and the Allahabad High Court had rejected the petition to defer the verdict.

Advani visits Somnath temple every year on Sep 25 since he took out a yatra from the place to Ayodhya in 1990.