Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Friday asked the BJP to come out with an ordinance and declare a date for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. While slamming the BJP, the Sena said those in power should be proud of Shiv Sainiks who had “destroyed Babur’s raj in Ram Janmabhoomi”. The Babri Masjid was built in Ayodhya on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur.
In an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamna’, the Sena said it neither moves around with a begging bowl asking for votes in the name of Lord Ram nor does it indulge in “jumlebaazi” (rhetoric) during polls. Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray is scheduled to visit Ayodhya on November 25 as part of his party’s push to build a Ram temple there. “Why did those, who call themselves pro-Hindutva, start getting a stomach ache when we announced our plans of going to Ayodhya? We are not going there for political purposes,” the Sena said in the editorial.