Gyanvapi row: Muslim side must fix ‘historic’ wrong, says CM Yogi Adityanath | Varanasi News – Times of India

VARANASI: Amid the ongoing dispute between the Hindu and Muslim sides over the Gyanvapi issue, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that the government was making efforts to find a solution to the problem.

The CM said, “Inside Gyanvapi, there are deity statues, and Hindus did not place them there. If we call it a mosque, there will be a dispute.

The government wants a resolution to the Gyanvapi dispute.”
Yogi added that there has been a “historical mistake” by the Muslim side, and thus, they should step forward for its resolution.
Furthermore, he questioned, “If Gyanvapi is a mosque, then what was a trident doing there?”

The Varanasi district court had previously ordered an ASI survey of the entire area, excluding the disputed parts of the Gyanvapi premises. The mosque committee had appealed against this order in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court later transferred the case to the high court, halting the survey.