Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Thursday that the government should clear the path for construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya through an appropriate law.
In his annual Vijayadashami address to RSS workers at Nagpur, he said the temple was necessary from the point of view of self-esteem, and would also pave the way for an atmosphere of goodwill and oneness in the country. “This matter of national interest is being held up by some fundamentalist elements and forces that play communal politics for selfish gains. Politics is delaying the construction of Ram Mandir,” he said.
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Despite such machinations, the decision on the land ownership should be expedited and the government should clear the path for building a “grand temple through an appropriate and requisite law,” he said.
He said the RSS was associated with the sentiments of crores of countrymen in the efforts at construction of a magnificent temple at the birthplace of Lord Ram. “The place of Janmabhoomi is yet to be allocated for the construction of the temple, though all pieces of evidence have shown that once there was a temple at that place.”
He said a few elements tried to stall the judgment through newer interventions in the judicial process, adding that it was in no one’s interest to test the patience of society without reason.
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(With PTI inputs)