Telangana: Amit Shah did not make any statement on construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, says BJP
A senior BJP leader had quoted Shah as saying at an event in Hyderabad that the temple will be built before the upcoming General Elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday denied reports that its President Amit Shah had assured Telangana party members that the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya will begin before the 2019 elections.
“Yesterday in Telangana, BJP President Amit Shah didn’t make any statement on the issue of Ram Mandir as being claimed in certain sections of the media,” the saffron party said in a tweet. “No such matter was even on the agenda.”
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Perala Sekharjee had on Friday quoted Shah as saying: “Considering the developments, I believe that construction of Ram temple will begin before the coming general elections.”
The Supreme Court is currently hearing the decades-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case.
Yesterday in Telangana, BJP President Shri @AmitShah didn’t make any statement on the issue of Ram Mandir as being claimed in certain sections of the media. No such matter was even on the agenda.
— BJP (@BJP4India) July 14, 2018
Following the reports, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi had criticised Shah’s alleged remarks. It would be better if the Supreme Court gives a verdict in the case after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he said.
AShah in Hyd says Mandir will be built b4 the Parl elections
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) July 14, 2018
Qs is Shah going to write the judgment when the SCourt is deciding the Title dispute,& whether Masjid is essential feature of Islaam
It is better if the issue / Judgment given after Parl Elections for free & fair Elec
The case
On December 6, 1992, lakhs of kar sevaks demolished the Babri Masjid, claiming that the land on which the mosque stood was the birthplace of Ram. This triggered communal riots across the country. The karsevaks had claimed that the land was the birthplace of Ram.
Leaders of the BJP and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, including LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, led the movement to demolish the mosque. Advani piloted one of many roadshows across India in 1990 to galvanise support to have a temple built at the site of the mosque.
In May 2017, a special Central Bureau of Investigation court granted bail to Advani, Joshi and Bharti accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
The Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court’s 2010 verdict granting a three-way division of the land on which the Babri Masjid stood till 1992, when Hindutva activists demolished it. The High Court had ruled that the land be divided equally between the Sunni Waqf Board, the Hindu organisation Nirmohi Akhara, and the deity Ram Lalla (infant Ram), which is represented by the Hindu Mahasabha.