Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday echoed the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s call for the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya, saying building it was like establishing a “national identity.”
“It is like a movement to establish the identity of the country and we have to establish it,” Mr. Bhagwat told reporters at the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela here. He attended the Dharm Sansad of the VHP being held at the mela.
In its central committee meeting at the mela on Wednesday, the VHP passed a resolution calling for the construction of a Ram mandir at Ayodhya, and asked the government to act in this regard. Failure to do so would compel the “Hindu Samaj” to launch a massive agitation, the VHP said in a statement.
The Parishad has demanded that a bill be passed in the monsoon session of Parliament so that the Ram janmabhoomi land could be handed over to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas to build the temple.
Keywords: Ram temple constructon, Ayodhya issue, RSS
Excellent Mr Bhagat. We need another temple for establishing our national idetity while the existing temples drive Hindus away from them. Clean up the existing temples and rivers. Visit Varnasi as a normal devotee and you will find how dirty the place is and how corrupt/money hungry are the priests in Kasi Vishwanath temple or Kala Bhairava temple. I understand the situation is equally bad in places like Puri, Gaya and Allahbad.
Even Lord Ram will not visit any of the shrines in its present form.
National identity does not come from the temples but by embaracing everyone in the community harmoniouly into our ethos.
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