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To the surprise of many, the honorable judges of the Allahabad
High Court have at last pronounced their judgment, a judgment
that was awaited by the whole nation for almost six decades
with bated breath, a judgment that has afforded an
opportunity to the government—which, in its alertness to stem
any communal violence, had deployed 20 companies of central
paramilitary forces, 800 constables, 150 inspectors, and 30
officers in Lucknow alone, while keeping the paramilitary forces
ready at 16 locations that are closer to airports across the
country, along with AN 32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air
Force for instant deployment anywhere should any religious
disturbance arise following the Ayodhya verdict—to heave a
sigh of relief.
But it is the elite, who, instead of paving the way for soothing
the ruffled feelings, if any, of the common man, have created a
cacophony over the verdict: some in the electronic media have
said that the verdict is like a ‘Panchayat judgment’; some have
termed it as a judgment that relied more on faith rather than
on the fact of law; some newspapers screamed, “Two-thirds of
land to Hindus and one-third to Muslims”; yet others shouted,
“The court has pronounced a dangerous judgment where a
deity has a preeminent claim over law.” They simply failed to
see it as a means to end the 60-year-old litigation that has
seized the nation in a worst religious conflict, holding back the
much-needed economic growth.
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