NEW DELHI: Bashtriya Swayamsevar Sangh joint general secretary Prof Rajendra Singh has indicated that the Mathura and Kashi issues were likely to be taken up “two, three years alter the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya begins.”
The RSS leader maintained that the settlement of the Ayodhya question and the construction of the temple would win the VHP faith and confidence of the people.
According to Singh, the VHP had staked its claim on Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi right from the beginning.
Singh claimed after the resolution of the Ayodhya issue both the government and the Muslim
Population would realize that these three places were not important for them. Ayodhya itself would make people wonder why the Muslims did not give up the site gracefully, he said.
According to Singh, while the temple issues were essentially the concern of the VHP, other organizations would take their own stand on the issue “if the stage came for it.”
He also recited an ancient chant according to which Ayodhya, Mathura, Maya (Haridwar), Kashi, Kanchi, Avantika (Ujjain) and Puri Dwarka were the seven holy places which offered Moksha.
Referring to Ayodhya incidents, the RSS leader said he had written two letters to Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao. In these letters he stated that although the Prime Minister has been charging that he was betrayed, “it is we who have been betrayed.” He also drew attention to the Prime Minister’s claims during his talks with the RSS leadership that he was a democrat and would not dismiss a democratically elected government.
Singh said he had also written to President Shankar Dayal Sharma over his references to an abandoned structure as a mosque. He said that the RSS would agree to a dialogue only when it believed that the Government was in the dock.
‘The RSS leader claimed that the credit for the Ram temple issue has to go to the VHP and if the Government so preferred, it could seek to include some of its sadhus into the VHP sponsored trust.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 28, 1993
