Speaking on the Gyanvapi mosque issue, Tauqeer Raza, the head of Ittehad Millat Council, said, “Calling what was found in the Gyanvapi mosque a shivling is actually making a mockery of Hinduism. There are many mosques in the country where there were temples before. Those temples were not razed … just converted (into mosques) when people adopted Islam. The mosques shouldn’t be touched.”