Congress claimed that the Places of Worship Act safeguards ‘secularism’ in India and that the challenge to its constitutional validity is a “malicious attempt” to undermine secularism.
A plea filed by Congress's KC Venugopal seeks strict implementation of one of the provisions of the Places of Worship Act (POWA), which prohibits lawsuits to reclaim a place of worship or to change its character from what it was on August 15, 1947.