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Seer says his proposal not rejected outright
Kancheepuram, July 06: Kanchi Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi today said he did not believe that his fresh proposal to untangle the Ayodhya issue had been rejected by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board outright.
Refusing to agree that the talks have failed, he said "they have rejected once before also, but again they came back. So there is always hope that they will come back. This can be solved not out of anger but out of love".
Asked who had communicated to him from AIMPLB, Jayendra
declined to disclose it.
Asked whether it was Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, who had
spoken to him, the seer asked "Why would the PM come into
this?"
Replying to another question on why talks were having a
set back, he said it was because it was becoming a conflict of
"egos and a prestige". Instead it should be approached with
"mutual love and understanding", he said.
He also declined to hazard the reason for the grounds of
rejection, when a reporter sought to know it.
Asked whether he was sad about the outcome, the seer said
"No. There is always hope".
He said it was a pity that a section of the press caused
a setback by giving "undue twist" to his statement on the eve
of the AIMPLB meeting.
Asked why had he sent the proposal to the board instead
of Babri Masjid committee, Jayendra said it was AIMPLB which
had come forward to have consultations and conciliation with
him.
The seer said it was unfortunate that undue emphasis had
been given to his statement that there was no need for a
mosque at Ayodhya.
He said he had always been telling the Hindus that there
was no need for building new temples, but old temples should
be maintained.
Bureau Report