- News>
- India
VHP pooh-poohs Naidu`s suggestion on mosque near Ram Temple
New Delhi, May 29: Declaring it would not allow any mosque to be built anywhere within the five kms circumference of Ayodhya, VHP today said BJP president Venkaiah Naidu was playing to the galleries while suggesting construction of a mosque alongside the proposed Ram Temple there.
New Delhi, May 29: Declaring it would not allow any mosque to be built anywhere within the five kms circumference of Ayodhya, VHP today said BJP president Venkaiah Naidu was playing to the galleries while suggesting construction of a mosque alongside the proposed Ram Temple there.
Without naming Naidu, who made the suggestion at a
minorities rally at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh yesterday, VHP
senior vice-president Acharya Giriraj Kishore said, "first
statements are made, then they are contradicted. Politicians
lose control on seeing crowds to get applause."
Kishore said the suggestion, if implemented, would lead to permanent unrest, as there could be clash in the timings of 'aarti' at the temple and 'namaaz' at the mosque.
"Moreover, our dharmacharyas have declared that a mosque will not be allowed at any cost within the panchkosi parikrama (about five km circumference of the temple town). So long as the religious leaders and we (VHP) are alive, we will not allow it to be built," Kishore said.
He said the suggestion made by the "president of a particular party" (Naidu) might have been to bring about a truce, but "we want permanent peace, not a patchwork."
Asked whether the VHP would abide by a court verdict in this regard, he said, "we will not agree. We shall resist it through agitation."
"There are enough mosques in Ayodhya and many of them are lying empty and unattended," the VHP leader said.
Asserting that under no circumstance would the makeshift temple would be removed or 'puja' stopped, Kishore said, "the sanctum sanctorum and the temple would be built there (disputed site)."
Bureau Report
Kishore said the suggestion, if implemented, would lead to permanent unrest, as there could be clash in the timings of 'aarti' at the temple and 'namaaz' at the mosque.
"Moreover, our dharmacharyas have declared that a mosque will not be allowed at any cost within the panchkosi parikrama (about five km circumference of the temple town). So long as the religious leaders and we (VHP) are alive, we will not allow it to be built," Kishore said.
He said the suggestion made by the "president of a particular party" (Naidu) might have been to bring about a truce, but "we want permanent peace, not a patchwork."
Asked whether the VHP would abide by a court verdict in this regard, he said, "we will not agree. We shall resist it through agitation."
"There are enough mosques in Ayodhya and many of them are lying empty and unattended," the VHP leader said.
Asserting that under no circumstance would the makeshift temple would be removed or 'puja' stopped, Kishore said, "the sanctum sanctorum and the temple would be built there (disputed site)."
Bureau Report