Lucknow, May 18: BJP national president M Venkaiyah Naidu said today his party favoured enacting a legislation to pave the way for construction of a "grand" Ram Temple at Ayodhya, but made it clear that it would not force its alliance partners to accept its line.
"We are leading a coalition. If they (partners) support us it is good, but we will not force them," he told reporters here.
Naidu also justified the stand taken by the Centre before the Liberhans Commission, saying that there was no dispute that Ayodhya was the birth place of Lord Ram.
"The Centre's stand (that the disputed site was the birthplace of lord ram) only reflected the conviction of the people of the country and there is no contradiction in its stand," Naidu told reporters here.
He added that a solution to "this problem" could only be arrived at either through talks or a court order.
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