Efforts for a negotiated settlement of the Ayodhya dispute failed to take off with Vishwa Hindu Parishad and All India Babri Masjid Action Committee (AIBMAC) declaring that talks would not yield any result even as AIBMAC announced it would resist construction of the Ram temple at the disputes site.
The AIBMAC held an emergency meeting in Lucknow to firm its strategy in the wake of a proposal for dialogue between leaders of Hindu and Muslim communities and committee spokesman Zafaryab Jilani later told reporters that no concrete outcome was expected out of a fresh round of talks with the Hindu leaders. He said the committee was in favour of a court verdict which should be acceptable to both the parties, he said.
Taking an equally hardline posture, VHP president Ashok Singhal and vice president Giriraj Kishore said that the organisation would go ahead with the temple construction at the disputed site irrespective of the outcome of the talks. Bureau Report