New Delhi, July 06: As All India Muslim Personal Law Board rejected Kanchi Sankaracharya's proposals to settle the Ayodhya issue, VHP today hardened its stand saying if they do not agree to hand over the disputed site for construction of Ram temple they will lose not only Kashi, Mathura and Ayodhya but "many more things".
"We had expected such a decision," VHP senior vice
president Acharya Giriraj Kishore told, adding Kanchi
Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati should not have sent the
proposal to the AIMPLB in the first place.
Firebrand VHP leader Praveen Togadia said in Kanyakumari
that this was the "last opportunity for Muslims to earn the
goodwill of Hindu community”.
"If they do not concede to this demand (of handing over
the disputed land to Hindus) they will lose many things not
just Kashi, Mathura and Ayodhya,” he said.
Reiterating the demand for enactment of a legislation to
hand over disputed land at Ayodhya to Hindus, Kishore said VHP
would launch an agitation for the purpose.
The VHP leader also asserted that no mosque should be
built close to Ram Janambhoomi and pointed out that Kanchi
seer had also talked on the same lines.
BJP spokesman Prakash Javedkar said "we do not think this
is the end of the road. The negotiations have just begun and
we hope things would move ahead in times to come".
He, however, said the BJP stand on the issue has been
consistent that the Ram temple has to come up at the birth
place of Ram.
Meanwhile, continuing his fulmination against the Vajpayee government on Ayodhya, VHP leader Ashok Singhal today said the BJP had tried to isolate the VHP on the temple issue and it was better that the party sought a fresh mandate in view of its failure to fulfil the promise of a legislation on Ayodhya.
"BJP's Palampur resolution had stated that the issue
would be resolved through negotiations or legislation. The
government should implement the resolution," Singhal told
reporters just before leaving the venue of the RSS national
executive which concluded this afternoon.
"Even if they don't have the majority to pass the
legislation, they should place it before other parties. And
if they can't pass it they should go to the people,” he said.
Bureau Report
