Two BJP MPs raised the Ram temple issue at a meeting held in on Tuesday, after the party’s defeat in the Assembly elections in three States in the Hindi heartland, and the RSS and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ramping up their demand for an ordinance to build the temple in Ayodhya.
At a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party, MPs from Uttar Pradesh, Ravindra Kushwaha and Hari Narayan, asked the leadership to spell out what it proposed to do. The meeting was chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah were out of Delhi.
Mr. Singh said “everyone wants a Ram temple at the site where Lord Ram is believed to have been born” and asked the MPs to be patient.
As the two MPs raised the issue, a few others supported them, sources said.
VHP campaign
The VHP has been running a campaign, backed by the RSS, to reach out to the MLAs and MPs of all parties to get the government to promulgate an ordinance to build the temple.
The Supreme Court is hearing the title suit in the case.
The BJP will assign Ministers to speak to party MPs from December 20 to January 3 so as to thrash out any issue in the government’s policies and their implementation.