The Indian Express - August 19, 2004
Sena to train cadre in trident-handling
Aims at removing ‘hurdles’ in the path of construction of Ram Temple
Express News Service
Lucknow, August 18: SHIV Sena has decided to train its volnuteers in “effective way of trishul-handling” for “self-defence” purposes so that they can face all the “hurdles coming in the way of construction of Ram temple”.
The training will start with trishul pujan that will be held all over the state at the all district units of Shiv Sena on August 23.
During the pujan, Shiv Sainiks will impart trishul training to thousands of volunteers across the state. Vijay Tiwari, chief of party’s state unit, has issued directives to all the district units in this regard.
His deputy Ajay Katiyar said during the pujan, the Shiv Sainiks will pray to God to give them strength to over come all hurdles and face bravely those who are “creating obstructions” on their way in building the temple.
Katiyar said that through trishul pujan programme, Sena wants to convey the message to the public that “there is a bunch of politicains and few groups of minorities who do not want the temple to take shape.
Even the government of the country was manipulating the innocent public by discribing the site of temple in Ayodhya to be in dispute.”
Lashing out at the present as well as the privious governments at the Centre, he said that all the governments had unnecessarily created controversies regarding Ram Janmabhoomi and thereby entangling the issue in a legal battle.
“But this will adversely affect their own future,” he warned all the parties who ruled at the Centre, including the BJP.
Katiyar informed that after the trishul training programme, party volunteers would hold a sankalp yagya in Varanasi in September.
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