‘Never Lose Hope’: High-profile lawyers Hari Shankar Jain and Vishnu call Pran Pratishtha as ‘grand success day’

Well-known lawyer Hari Shankar Jain and his son Vishnu Shankar Jain, who fought the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case in Ayodhya, Gyanvapi case in Varanasi, Taj Mahal in Agra and Qutub Minar case in Delhi, spoke to News 18 at the consecration ceremony. of. A “Grand Success Day” for the entire country.

He said, “After a long legal battle, we are able to see such a historic day. This is a great success day for the entire country. ‘Never lose courage,’” Hari Shankar Jain told News18.

His son Vishnu told News18 that “this is the second Diwali for us” after the grand Pran Pratishtha is being organized in Ayodhya to install the idol of Ram Lalla following the centuries-old temple movement.

Hari Shankar Jain represented the Hindu side in the Babri Masjid case in 1993. He won the legal battle in Allahabad High Court. During that time his son Vishnu was helping him.

The Ayodhya dispute, which started in 1993, ended with the Supreme Court’s decision in 2019. Till then Vishnu fought the case of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.

Hari Shankar had contested the elections from Amethi against senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and had also filed a petition in the court against her as she was not an Indian citizen.

Vishnu is the spokesperson of ‘Hindu Front for Justice’. He started pleading the Ram Janmabhoomi case in 2011, challenging the 2010 verdict of the Allahabad High Court. In 2016, he passed the Supreme Court Advocate on Record examination and made his first appearance there.

The high-profile father-son duo has fought more than 100 cases so far.

The two are also fighting a case over 27 Hindu and Jain temples that were destroyed by Muslim invaders to build the Qutub Minar. Apart from this, cases have also been filed for the claimed Shiva temple in the Taj Mahal, challenging the provisions of the Places of Worship Act, the Waqf Act of 1991 and 1995 and its amendments made in 2013 and various governments on the basis of the Sachar Committee. Have been done. Report.