No disputed structure should be called mosque: Yogi

Any disputed structure should not be called a mosque, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath said on Friday.

“The day we stop calling it a mosque, people will stop going there,” he said at an event organised by news channel Aaj Tak in Prayagraj. “Hurting anyone’s faith by constructing a mosque-like structure does not align with Islamic principles. Worship at such sites is not acceptable to god too.”

Islam does not mandate the construction of a structure for worship, the chief minister said. “But Sanatan Dharma does,” he added.