Qutub Minar Controversy : Former Archaeological Department officer claims Qutub Minar was built by Vikramaditya to study the Sun

A former officer of the Archaeological Survey of India has made a big claim about Qutub Minar. In an interview to India Today, former regional director of ASI Dharamveer Sharma has claimed that Qutub Minar is actually the Sun Tower. Which was not built by Qutb-ud-din Aibak but by Emperor Vikramaditya in the fifth century. He told that Vikramaditya had built this tower because he wanted to study the positions of the Sun. Dharamveer Sharma also claimed to have a lot of evidence in this regard.

He said, ‘The Qutub Minar has a tilt of 25 inches, because the Sun was studied from here. That is why on June 21, the sun was changing place in the sky, even then there was no shadow of Qutub Minar at that place for half an hour.

Sharma told that people claim that It is an independent building and it is not related to the nearby mosque. Actually, its doors are north facing, so that the pole star can be seen from it at night.

Hindu organizations demanded to name the Qutub Minar as Vishnu Stambh

Last week, Hindu organizations recited Hanuman Chalisa in the Qutub Minar and demanded to name it Vishnu Stambh. The United Hindu Front claimed that It was built by demolishing Jain and Hindu temples. The police had taken some people of the organization into custody.

Disputed History of Qutub Minar

• According to the Delhi Tourism website, Qutub Minar was built in 1193 by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, the first Muslim ruler of Delhi. After defeating the last Hindu ruler of Delhi, he started the construction of this 73 meter high building.
• However, they could only get the basement built. After him Iltutmash built three storeys and after him in 1368 Firoz Shah Tughlaq built the remaining two storeys.
• The first three storeys are made of red sandstone and the fourth-fifth storeys are made of marble and sandstone. Underneath the tower is the Quwwat-al-Islam Mosque, which is said to be the first mosque to be built in India.
• There is a 5 meter high iron pillar in the courtyard of the mosque, whose biggest feature is that it is made of pure iron, but till date it has never rusted. This iron pillar is believed to have been built by King Chandragupta Vikramaditya (Raj 375-412).