Amid the ongoing controversy over the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, the Ministry of Culture has asked the ASI to conduct excavation and iconography of idols at the Qutub Minar complex.
Union culture minister GK Reddy clarified on Sunday that no directions for excavation at the Qutub Minar complex in Delhi had been issued by the government.
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