Ayodhya Verdict: A common man’s view.

So, finally…..after 482 years of fighting, 60 years of litigation, thousands of rivalries and countless sufferers later, Justice Dharam Veer Sharma, Justice Sibghat Ullah Khan and Justice Sudhir Agarwal have delivered a verdict on the land dispute in Ayodhya. I call it a land dispute because whatever the toppings on the issue, the core matter is basically a quarrel over who can call that chunk of land their own. The appellants are not all happy with the result and many of the senior advocates are already lunging at the throats of the judges, the verdict is like a panchayati-raj solution and ignores the legal framework according to them. But one thing strikes my mind - this issue could have evoked murderous rage in people (no one can yet forget 1992) but the real appreciation of the judgment is the fact that not even a single conflict has been reported from anywhere in the country. Not even one single random incident. The critics argue that the judges have no base for partitioning the land when no suit was filed asking for the same, but I have one simple question- Do they have any alternative solution which satisfies every party and guarantees zero bloodshed? The legal eagles somehow forget that law is made to provide solutions, not to question them. Instead of criticizing the judges, one should look at the way they have risen over the petty law books to provide a genuine solution- this is the work of senior statesmen who want to put the entire incident to rest. More than the land division, the judges deserve to be lauded for the manner in which they divided it- no party can now claim to be disadvantaged- hindus have got janmabhoomi while muslims have got babri at the same time. This is the best demonstration of secularism that could ever be, however now is the real crunch time. The political parties are sure to try to raise sentiments by questioning one point or the other and one wrong step now will undo all the good ones. This is the time we stand up and say to all parties- this is what we want and we, the people of the sovereign socialist secular democratic republic of India would not accept anything else. Cheers India!!!