SARNATAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party President Murli Manohar Joshi on Jan.24 said no One could demolish the present temple structure at the disputed Site at Ayodhya, even if Supreme Court ruled that a masjid should be constructed in the disputed place. Addressing a public meeting here he charged Prime Minister Narasimha Rao with cheating the People by saying that his Government would construct both a masjid and a temple at Ayodhya. Rao was practicing pseudo secularism by saying that both the structures would be constructed it was an impossible task, he said. He urged the people to converge in New Delhi on February 25 to participate in the party’s massive rally when the demand for dissolution of the Lok Sabha would be made on the ground that the Narasimha Rao Government had lost the mandate of the people failing on the social, economic and political fronts.

He said his party was committed to construct the Ram temple on the same spot where kar seva had been done in December 6.

He urged the people to remove the Rao government, Rao had betrayed the people, Viswa Hindu Parishad and sants, he added.

Joshi, later speaking to journalists in Bangalore challenged Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao to ban his “party and face the music Reacting to the reported remarks of Narasimha Rao in this regard at Hyderabad recently, he said if he banned the BJP, people would banish Congress not only from power and but also the political scene of the country.

He said the threat of ban reflected the fear psychosis which had gripped the Congress whose” internal health is deteriorating very speedily” with dissensions in various states within the party.

DrJoshi said he would pray al Kanniyakumani on January 26 for the dignity and honor of the national flag which had been “threatened by the Kamataka. “The act of refusing permission to hoist the national flag on the Republic Day at a public place in Dharwad was an insult to the national Tricolor. Any Government that could not protect the Constitutional right of the people should not remain in power even for a moment In fact such acts would amount to a direct provocation to those elements who had given a call to boycott the Republic Day celebrations, he said.

Joshi would hoist the national flag in Kesh.

 

Article extracted from this publication >>  January 29, 1993