Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Wednesday claimed that if the BJP gets a clear majority in the coming Lok Sabha polls, its government will build a Ram temple at Ayodhya.
“If the BJP will get a clear majority, it is committed to building the Ram Temple at Ayodhya,” Joshi, party’s nominee from the temple town, told PTI, adding construction of the temple was a matter of “nishtha and aastha” (commitment and faith) for the party.
To a question, he said the party never backtracked from its commitment of building a Ram temple at Ayodhya and added the issue can be sorted out only through consensus or enacting a law.
“If a consensus on erecting the structure is not reached, BJP will go ahead with enacting a law for this purpose."
“Ram Temple is not only ours but the issue of the whole country and a demand of the whole nation. Construction of the temple is important for the country. It is better if all get it constructed by a consensus, otherwise the party will do it by making a new law, which we have been saying for quite long.”
When asked that why the previous BJP-led NDA government at the Centre did not build the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, he said lack of majority forced the party to act according to the NDA agenda.
When asked that why the previous BJP-led NDA government at the Centre did not build the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, he said lack of majority forced the party to act according to the NDA agenda.