ASI Removes Restrictions On Bhojshala Worship After Landmark MP High Court Verdic

The Archaeological Survey of India on Saturday granted the Hindus unrestricted access to the monument for worship. This comes after a day the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared that Bhojshala in the Dhar district area was a temple of Goddess Saraswati. Read on to know more about it.

ASI Grants Hindu Access To Bhojshala

As Bhojshala was a centre of learning and research on the Sanskrit language, grammar and literature, apart from being a temple. Quoting the ASI order, an official told the portal that the Hindu community shall have unrestricted access to the complex in connection with the ancient practice of learning and worship of Goddess Saraswati.

In its ruling, the Indore bench of the high court also dismissed the ASI’s April 7, 2003, order prohibiting the rights of Hindus to worship within the premises on Tuesdays and permitting Friday prayers by the Muslim community. The ASI order marks an important turning point in the age-old dispute. Ashish Goyal of the Hindu Front for Justice, the main petitioner in the case, also told the portal that the HC ruling put special attention on the historical character of Bhojshala and the ongoing practice of Hindu worship there, and hence the ASI’s new order grants Hindus the right to worship at the site 365 days a year.

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Hindu Devotees Can Worship 365 Days

Hindu devotees, meanwhile, gathered at the monument on Saturday to offer ‘Saraswati Vandana’. Gokul Nagar, a young devotee, told the portal how they have struggled for years to see this day. The devotees are very happy that they will now be able to worship at Bhojshala every day, whereas previously they had that opportunity only on Tuesdays. Another devotee, Sanjay, informed that he carried a picture of Goddess Saraswati to the monument with the purpose of installing it there but was stopped by officials, who told him that ASI rules and regulations on this matter were yet to be approved.

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Manoj Kumar Singh, who is Indore Rural Range Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), stated that the situation in the area is peaceful. Around 1,200 police officers have been deployed in Dhar to maintain law and order.

Good news for Hindu Devotees.

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