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After giving a clarion call to all for the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya, in a dramatic and surprising move the Vishwa Hindu Parishad had said it had decided to put on the hold its agitation for Ram Mandir for the next four months to “avoid any politics on the issue”. This is massive U-turn as Vishwa Hindu Parishad had in- fact taken out a Ram Rajya Rath Yatra across the country to garner support for the Mandir.
The VHP’s surprise announcement comes barely a week after the BJP-led NDA government moved the Supreme Court seeking permission to return the 67 acres of land in Ayodhya — adjacent to the disputed site — to its original owners including the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas. This was decided at the recent Dharma Sansad in Prayagraj, the VHP reportedly said.
“We are putting on hold our protests for four months because we don’t want to make it a ‘chunavi mudda’ (election issue).When we do not have the land (the disputed site), what is the use of carrying on with the agitations. The issue will always be alive for us, we are just putting it on hold. As soon as the elections are over, we will be back with our demand,” said senior VHP leader Surendra Jain.
“What the people decide (in the coming LS elections) we do not know. But we’re sure whoever is in power, whichever party forms government, they will listen to our demand of building a grand Ram Temple,” Jain said, days after the much-publicised VHP ‘dharma sansad’ in Kumbh where, contrary to demands of saints and seers demanding a date for construction in Ayodhya, the Sangh had reposed faith in the Narendra Modi government and decided to drop the demand of immediate commencement of construction till the formation of the new government.
Further, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy in a interview to a news channel had said : ” If the BJP is able to build the Ram Temple then they will win the 2019 Lok Sabha Polls, if they do not they will lose the election and get less than 200 seats”.
