Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended Wednesday’s ceremony, which followed a ruling by the Indian Supreme Court on the matter.
“We have noticed the press of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on an internal factor in India,” the spokesman for India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, said in a statement.
“You will have to chorus to interfere in the affairs of India and the chorus of any community incitement. While this is not an unexpected position on the component of a country that practices cross-border terrorism and denies its own minorities their devout rights, these comments are nonetheless deeply regrettable,” Srivastava said.
In his comments on Wednesday, Pakistan had stated that the ruling of the Supreme Court of India last November, “opening the way for the structure of the temple, reflected not only the preponderance of religion over justice, but also the developing majoritarianism in India today, where minorities, especially Muslims and their places of worship and their places of worship , Array are getting under attack.”
The excessive haste to begin the temple structure in Babri Masjid amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic and several other measures showed how Muslims in India were “marginalized,” according to Pakistan’s communiqué.
India’s Supreme Court, in a unanimous verdict last year, paved the structure of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and ordered the central government to grant five acres of land to the Sunni Waqf Board for the structure of a mosque.
In the past, India had dismissed Pakistan’s previous comments on the factor as “unjustified and gratuitous.”
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