There is a massive heart-burning in The Hindu and Indian Express today on the appointment of spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar by Supreme Court as one of the mediators in the long-simmering Ayodhya dispute.
The SC sent the Ayodhya dispute to mediation, the panel is headed by Retired Justice FM Kalifullah and has Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Sriram Panchu as the other members
The Supreme Court on Wednesday had reserved its order on the matter of referring the Ayodhya dispute to a court-appointed and monitored mediation. While the Muslim petitioners were "agreeable to mediation", Hindu petitioners had opposed it.
Prashant Bhushan had filed an application seeking the recusal of Justice Arun Mishra from hearing the contempt petition filed against him by K.K. Venugopal. The application was dismissed by the Court.
The ordinance will restore the original formula to take entire institution as one unit for calculating quota, instead of individual departments as per court order