By A Corespondent / New Delhi

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved five acre land to Sunni Waqf Board in Ayodhya.It was decided in a cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow today.

Briefing the media after cabinet meeting, government spokesperson and minister Shrikant Sharma said, the cabinet meeting has approved five acre land for Sunni Waqf Board at village Dhannipur under Sohaval Tehsil , near Raunahi police station in Ayodhya district. The proposed land is 18 kilometer from Ayodhya.

The supreme court in its historic decision on 9th November last year had ordered to allot five acre land in Ayodhya to Sunni Waqf Board for construction of a Mosque.