Bringing ordinance only option for building Ram temple, govt should show urgency: VHP

November 29, 2018 23:44

The government should show the same urgency in bringing an ordinance for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya as it did to amend the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, senior VHP leader Alok Kumar said Thursday.

He also said passing an ordinance in Parliament was the "only option" left to facilitate the temple's construction.

The VHP will organise a massive rally at the Ram Leela ground here to press for a law for the temple's construction. This rally will be held on November 9, two days before Parliament's Winter Session begins, the organisation's international working president said.

Kumar expressed hope that the BJP-led NDA government will bring the Bill in the Winter Session, as, he claimed, the saffron party was part of the Ram Janambhoomi movement in 1992.

"They (BJP) fought with us, shoulder-to shoulder, during the 1992 Ram Janambhoomi movement, and the construction of temple is part of the party's manifesto. I am hopeful that the government will bring law in the upcoming Winter Session," he said at an event in New Delhi.

Referring to the passage of Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill in Parliament, Kumar claimed that the Bill was passed even when a review petition was listed before the Supreme Court.

"The way the government showed urgency in passing bill to overturn a Supreme Court order concerning certain safeguards against arrest under the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe law and to restore in its original, why can't it be done in this (temple's) case?" he asked. -- PTI

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