There is no ‘Shivling’ inside Gyanvapi mosque: Samajwadi Party MP

May 22, 2022

Varanasi: The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. The Supreme Court asked the Varanasi DM to protect the area where the Shivling was found without impeding the right of Muslims to enter and worship on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)(PTI05_17_2022_000242A)

Videographic survey of Gyanvapi Masjid — Varanasi: The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. The Supreme Court asked the Varanasi DM to protect the area where the Shivling was found without impeding the right of Muslims to enter and worship on Tuesday. (PTI Photo)(PTI05_17_2022_000242A)

Lucknow, May 22

Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq on Sunday claimed that there was no ‘Shivling’ in the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi and the word was spread about it to stoke sentiments for the upcoming 2024 parliamentary election.

se circumstances are being created due to 2024 election. If you go back in the history, there was no ‘Shivling’ and nothing else in the Gyanvapi mosque. All of this is wrong,” Barq, an MP from Sambhal, told reporters outside the Samajwadi Party office.

Barq was here to meet SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.

On Ayodhya, Barq said, “Though a Ram temple is being constructed, I still say that there is a mosque there.”

“Ye takat ke bal-boote par ho raha hai” (This is purely a display of power), he alleged.

“We are being targeted. Mosques are being attacked. The government doesn’t run like this. Government should run with honesty and rule of law. There is a rule of bulldozer, not of law,” he alleged.