'Why court ordered Sambhal mosque survey when plea prayed for right to access?'

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said if the petition over a Mughalera mosque at Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh had prayed for the right to access then why a court there ordered a survey of the structure reported news agency PTITargeting the ruling BJP Owaisi said such issues weaken the country which is facing inflation unemployment farmer suicides and other issuesOn November 19 a court of civil judge senior division of Sambhal passed an exparte order for a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid by an advocate commissioner after taking note of a plea of the Hindu side claiming the Sambhal mosque was built by Mughal emperor Babur in 1526 after demolishing a templeOn November 24 violence gripped the area during the courtordered survey of the Sambhal mosque killing four persons and injuring many othersThe Supreme Court on Friday ordered a Sambhal trial court to halt proceedings in the case over the Shahi Jama Masjid and its survey at Chandausi while directing the UP government to maintain peace and harmony in the violencehit townTalking to reporters here on Sunday over the Sambhal incident Owaisi said If we read the petition we find the prayer in it is right to access If this is so why did the court order the survey which is wrong If they need access who stops them from going and sitting in the mosque reported PTIIf according to the Places of Worship Act the character and nature of a religious place cant be changed then why still the survey was ordered the Hyderabad MP asked reported PTINotably a court recently also admitted a petition seeking to declare the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan as a templeSeveral opposition leaders have raised serious concerns over the controversy on the Ajmer Dargah which comes close on the heels of similar claims made regarding the Sambhal mosque in UPAsked about claims over the shrine in Ajmer Owaisi said the dargah exists for 800 years and Sufi poet Amir Khusro had also mentioned about it dargah in his bookNow they say that it is not a dargah If this is so where is this going to stop Even prime ministers send chadar to this dargah during Urs What will the Modi government say when they send the chadar every year he sought to know reported PTIIf the Buddha and Jain community people go to court in such a manner they will also claim some places So an Act was brought in 1991 that the nature of a religious place will not be changed and it will remain as it was on August 15 1947 he said reported PTIOwaisi said such issues weaken the country and BJP leaders should stop going thisThere are problems like inflation unemployment farmer suicides China becoming powerful But they put the people at work for this survey of religious places I earlier said after the judgement in the Babri case that more such incidents may pop up now he said reported PTINotably RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday expressed concern over the declining population growth and said Indias Total Fertility Rate TFR the average number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime should be at least 3 well above the present one of 21To a query on it Owaisi said Now those in the RSS should start marrying Their BJP MPs say that no one having more than two children should be given the benefit of government schemes They should stick to one policy reported PTIWith inputs from PTI