Newly elected VHP international president Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje on Saturday said Hindus would launch a countrywide agitation to mount pressure on their local MPs for passage of a law in Parliament facilitating the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya if the Supreme Court’s verdict “goes against their faith”.
On his first visit to the pilgrimage city after assuming charge, Mr. Kokje said the Ram temple issue is in a decisive stage of resolution in the Supreme Court and legal experts in the VHP believe that the apex court will, in six to seven months, pass the judgment in accordance with the faith of crores of Hindus.
“However, if the court verdict goes against their faith, crores of Hindus all over the country would start a movement to mount pressure on MPs representing their areas to pass a law in Parliament which paves the way for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya,” said Mr. Kokje.
Same agenda
He said the VHP will continue to work on its old agenda of creating social amity, awareness against cow slaughter and religious conversion, Ram Mandir construction and conservation of the country’s rivers.
Without naming anyone, he said those who called the VHP narrow-minded were now offering prayers at temples. “It is a result of our sustained campaign,” he said.
Asked why no law was passed in Parliament on Ram temple in the last four years of Narendra Modi-led government, Mr. Kokje said all efforts cannot be made by the government.
“Slow, steady and authentic steps have been taken. At least atrocities are not being perpetrated on innocent Hindu youth in the name of saffron terror,” he said.
