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Security around Taj Mahal tightened

Muslims plan to pray at Babri Mosque site
NEW DELHI, Dec 30: Muslim clergymen sre planning to march to the northern Indian town of Ayodhya to pray at the site of a 16th-century mosque demolished by militant Hindus this month, a leading Muslim priest said Tuesday, reports AFP.
Ahmad Bukhari, the Deputy Imam of'Dclhl’s biggest mosque, Jama Masjid, also criticised a decision by the local authorities In Ayodhya to allow Hindus to pray at a makeshift temple erected on the rubble of the Moghul-built mosque.
"If Hindus could be allowed to offer prayers at the disputed site, why not Muslims," Bukhari said, adding that he was in touch with other Muslim leaders to coordinate the march plans.
A Muslim Minister from premier PV Naraslmha Rao's
cabinet said meanwhile that he and his other colleagues were opposed to a decision by New Delhi to seek a Supreme Court opinion on the Ayodhya dispute.
Hindus claim that the demolished Babri Mosoue stood on the site of a temple to their warrior-king lord Rama. Muslima dispute the claim.
The government announced Sunday that It was taking over the site in Ayodhya and set up two trusts to build a mosque and a temple.
It also decided to ask the Supreme Court to rule whether the mosque was built by the founder of the Moghul dynasty. Emperor Babar, on the site of a temple.
Deputy Commerce Minister Salman Khursheed told AFP that Muslim ministers wanted the court to decide all the
eases related to the Ayodhya dispute and not just the issue of whether the mosque was built over a razed Hindu tem-pte.
Khursheed said the Muslim ministers would meet Rao to discuss the Ayodhya controversy soon.
Most Muslim leaders and political parties, including the Hindu revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which spearheaded the campaign for a temple on the mosque site, have rejected the government compromise package.
AP adds: Security has been
heightened around the Taj Mahal and two nearby Muslim-built monuments for fear of attacks by Hindu zealots, news reports said Wednesday.
Metal detectors have been placed at the entrance of the
pearl-white marble structure in the northern city of Agra, and ant!-terrorist commando* have been posted outside. The Pioneer newspaper reported.
The Pioneer said security also was stepped up at Agra Fort built by Emperor Akbar in 1565 and at Fathepur Sikrl. a city Akbar built and briefly used as h1s capital. 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Agra.
The Pioneer said the number of security men around the monuments was doubled and the barbed wire fence behind the Taj was raised to nine feet (2.7 meters).
The fear of attacks rose after Hindu militants demolished a Muslim shrine in the town of Ayodhya December 6. triggering nationwide Hindu Muslim riots that left at least 1.200 people dead and 5.000 wounded