‘Gyanvapi not mosque, but Vishwanath himself’: UP CM Yogi Adityanath | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday objected to Varanasi’s Gyanvapi being referred to as a Muslim place of worship and said that it is rather Vishwanath (Lord Shiva). “Unfortunately, people call Gyanvapi a mosque, but it is actually Vishwanath himself,” CM Yogi said while addressing an event in Gorakhpur.Yogi Adityanath contended…

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Supreme Court declines to stop puja of deities in Gyanvapi cellar | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with a Varanasi court’s order allowing a priest nominated by the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust to conduct daily puja at ‘Vyas Ji Ka Tehkhana‘ inside Gyanvapi mosque’s cellar and said Muslims would continue to offer namaz as usual inside the mosque.After a one-and-a-half-hour-long hearing on the…

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