Ahmedabad: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) today said that ‘old experience’ indicates that resolution of Ram temple issue in Ayodhya was ‘difficult’ and highly unlikely through negotiations as suggested by the apex court recently.

Addressing a press conference here RSS sanghchalak (pashchim kshetra or western region), Jayantibhai Bhadesia said that even though the Supreme Court has suggested to find a solution through negotiations but it seems highly unlikely. Old experience also indicates this.

‘Three earlier attempts to resolve the Ramjambhoomi temple issue through negotiations have also failed at least thrice including the two during the then Rajiv Gandhi government and P V Narsimha Rao government,’ he said.

‘Once the Babri Masjid Action Committee had claimed that the Muslims will take back their claim over the place if evidences that a temple existed below the Barbri mosque, were put forth but when the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) excavation at the site brought forth such evidences, they stepped back,’ the RSS leader said.

He, however, said that in the wake of the recent suggestion of the court, the Dharma Sansad of the saints should decide the course of negotiation from Hindu side.
Bhadesia said that the matter can be resolved either by making a law or through the judgement of the court.

To a query he said that many in the government at center subscribe to the ideology of the Sangh and were strongly in favour of the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya but were bound to the rules of governance.

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