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Advani kicks off BJP's UP poll campaign with Ram temple
Saturday February 04, 2012 11:05:47 PM,
IANS
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Ayodhya
(Uttar Pradesh): Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani
Saturday reiterated his commitment to a grand Ram temple in this
Hindu holy town as he kicked off the party's campaign for the
Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Even as BJP has seen the futility of the temple issue in several
past elections, Advani still appears to be banking on the issue
for giving the party a boost at this month's state assembly
elections.
"My life's ultimate objective would be accomplished only on the
day a grand temple is in place in this holy town of Ayodhya,"
Advani told a gathering here.
"I am sure that millions of 'Ram Bhakts' (Ram devotees) are also
anxiously awaiting for the temple to be built at the place where
the deity of Lord Ram is installed. Therefore we have to strive in
that direction."
Recalling the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue,
he said: "All the three judges of the special bench were unanimous
on accepting the fact that Ram's birthplace was exactly where the
idol of the god was installed."
"It would a great day for me when leaders of the Hindu and Muslim
communities sit across the table to thrash out an amicable formula
to resolve the long-pending issue."
Advani said he was of the view that the dispute would have come to
an end long ago if the then Rajiv Gandhi government had dared to
adopt the same path for initiating the construction of Ram temple
as had been taken by the Congress's own government shortly after
Independence to re-build the Somnath temple.
"The book 'Somnath and Pilgrimage to Freedom' clearly spells out
the problems that arose at the time of reconstruction of the
Somnath temple, but it was then prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru who presided over a meeting that took the final decision.
The meeting was attended ,among others, by Maulana Azad, Sardar
Patel and K M. Munshi."
Referring to his rath yatra for the Ram temple, Advani said he had
learnt a lot from it. "The Ayodhya Rath yatra taught me 'Rashtra
Dharma (nationalism)," he emphasised.
Advani also flayed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance
government on the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks.
"Only if the government could muster up the courage, we could
bring back the estimated Rs. 25 lakh crores of India's black money
that was stashed in foreign banks. That could transform the
condition of all villages of India," he asserted.
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