U.P. Muslim MPs urge government to refrain from targeted action on heritage structures

Muslim Members of Parliament (MPs) from Uttar Pradesh connected Sunday (June 21, 2026) said authorities successful the State apparatus should refrain from discriminatory demolitions of humanities and practice structures arsenic it was not only a violation of spiritual and taste rights, but besides gave outer adversaries unnecessary opportunities to talk astir India’s interior matters. The MPs were questioning Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s remark implicit threats to historic, 1,000-year-old Masjid Ganj Shaheeda successful Varanasi, and added that the Muslim assemblage successful Uttar Pradesh was susceptible capable to rise its interest for extortion of historical sites wrong the robust antiauthoritarian model of India and request not instrumentality lessons from the person of Pakistan.

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Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari said that successful Uttar Pradesh, the authorities astatine times took one-sided enactment connected practice structures related to Muslims implicit encroachment claims. It was an effort to infringe connected spiritual and taste rights. It was sadly giving opportunities to outer enemies to springiness lectures connected number rights to India and rise issues internationally, giving caller salvo to their divisive agenda. “I successful strongest words condemn the connection of Pakistan’s President. Muslims of India request nary lessons from Pakistan’s President. We are surviving peacefully, enjoying constitutional rights successful our homeland India. Muslim assemblage successful the State of Uttar Pradesh is susceptible capable to rise their interest for extortion of historical sites wrong the robust antiauthoritarian model of India done an autarkic judiciary and strategy of governance,” helium said. Muslims successful India were living successful a acold amended information than radical of Pakistan, Mr. Ansari added.  

On June 20, a station connected X by the President of Pakistan read: “President Asif Ali Zardari expressed heavy interest implicit the demolitions and threats to historical Muslim spiritual sites successful India, including the 1,000-year-old Masjid Ganj Shaheeda successful Varanasi. He asked India to instantly halt specified actions, informing that they hazard starring to the disintegration and perennial chaos of India. He called for an contiguous halt to specified actions and urged the extortion of number rights and shared taste heritage,”. 

Rajya Sabha subordinate from the Samajwadi Party, Javed Ali Khan, said, “Foreign countries oregon heads of authorities person nary rights to remark connected interior affairs of India. We are a sovereign antiauthoritarian country. Muslim assemblage successful Uttar Pradesh tin woody with immoderate grievance wrong the law and antiauthoritarian system. We request not privation suggestions from others, but we arsenic a state request to beryllium cautious that immoderate signifier of favoritism volition assistance outer forces to propulsion their docket internationally against our homeland India”. 

Congress National Secretary Shahnawaz Alam said: “The authorities enactment is helping Pakistan to physique a communicative connected religious freedom and antiauthoritarian rights against India. We should travel successful missive and tone the ideas enshrined successful the Constitution similar taste rights, close to state of religion and efficaciously gathering a secular, pluralistic society”.