VHP threatens to hold mass campaigns if Ram temple issue isn’t resolved by May

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Lucknow, February 25, 2015: While giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi a May 2015 deadline to decide the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has said it will otherwise again hold mass campaigns for construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

 

VHP spokesperson for Ayodhya affairs Sharad Sharma told MAIL TODAY: "The VHP doesn’t believe in trivialising the issue. We need entire 70 acres of land, which is dubbed as disputed because of the litigation filed by Muslims."

Sharma said: "Modi has come to power because the BJP raised agendas of development and national growth. We didn’t want to disturb the government in the beginning. It was decided at a meeting of VHP leaders and important saints that the Centre should be given one year to take the country on the path of development and fulfil its other promises made to the people during the election campaigns. The saints will hold a meeting with the PM after May 2015 and demand that a law be enacted in Parliament to pave the way for construction of the Ram temple at the same site."

The VHP leader alleged that some people with no locus standi have been trying to show interest in the case. He said: "We understand the eagerness of Hashim Ansari, the oldest surviving plaintiff from the Babri Masjid side. He keeps raising trivial issues out of sheer frustration. Now and then, he takes the help of Akhara Parishad chief Mahanth Gyan Das and comes up with a bizarre plan. Every time, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav or his representative meets him and Ansari peacefully returns to his ivory tower. We really don’t care about his gimmicks."

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Ansari and Gyan Das have sought time from the PM for a meeting while claiming that they have reached a compromise formula on the Janmabhoomi-Masjid issue after discussions with major saints of the country. Ansari said: "We believe that there can be a temple and a masjid on 70 acres of the disputed land with a 100-feet high wall that will separate activities of the two communities in their religious sites."

However, when asked why he was trying to stitch a formula with the help of Gyan Das, who doesn’t figure in the case, Ansari said, "He wants peaceful co-existence of Hindus and Muslims in Ayodhya. This is why I stand with him. I am 93 years old and can die any day. I am in a hurry for a solution to this problem."

Das said: "But we don’t want the VHP to mess around because its leaders don’t want peace in the country."

But while rejecting his theory, Additional Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh Zafaryab Jilani, who is also a counsel for the All India Muslim Personal Law Board which looks after the related case of the Sunni Central Waqf Board, said, "The VHP is part and parcel of the case because its leader represents Ram Lala Virajman in court. There is no possibility of arriving at a compromise formula without involving the VHP."

The Allahabad HC, in its 2010 judgment, had ordered to trifurcate the disputed 70 acres of land and give the makeshift temple area to Ram Lala Virajman (a party in the case) while handing the Chabutara (platform) and Sita Ki Rasoi (kitchen of goddess Sita) to Nirmohi Akhara besides an unspecified one-third portion to the Sunni Central Waqf Board.


Courtesy: Indiatoday