The Allahabad High Court in the case observed and has dismissed as ‘infructuous’ a Public Interest Litigation, PIL plea wherein it seeks to prohibit Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from conducting the Ram Mandir Pran Prathishtha ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22, 2024.
The bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Kshitij Shailendra in the case observed and has noted that since the Pran Prathishtha ceremony has already concluded, the PIL plea has been rendered infructuous.
In the present case, the PIL plea, filed by 79-year-old Bhola Das, wherein it is prayed that the Prime Minister of India and the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh be refrained from taking part in the Pran-Pratishtha ceremony in Ayodhya until the conclusion of the 2024 parliamentary elections and until they obtain consent from all Sanatan Dharm Guru Shankaracharya.
It has been contended in the Public Interest Litigation, PIL that the PM Modi and CM Yogi were indulging in ‘dirty politics’ and that the ruling political party Bhartiya Janta Party was ‘misusing’ the power of government and ‘destroying the Sanatan culture’ for the political interest of the party in the upcoming parliamentary election of 2024.
Add9ing to it, the court stated that the entry of politics into religious matters cannot be permitted because it could ‘destroy the ethics of religious issues.’
Further, the plea moves also stated that objections raised by certain ‘Shankaracharyas’ against the consecration ceremony, asserting that the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ of the idol was not being done as per the principles of Sanatan Dharma due to the incomplete status of the Ram Temple.
It was also argued before the court that the Pausa month of the Santana Hindu calendar is unfit and unlucky for religious functions.