The Times of India
Mosque to be off Ayodhya limits: VHP
Manjari Mishra, TNN, July 17, 2010, 05.44am IST
LUCKNOW: No mosque in Ayodhya and no mosque named Babri anywhere in the country. The three-day high-level meet of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), held in the temple town after a long gap of 18 years, concluded on an overtly belligerent note. And even though the saffron camp denied any link with the judgement in 60-year-old Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title suit, expected any time after July, the timing and also the venue --Karsevak Puram which houses the 60 percent stone blocks ready for a new temple -- is being interpreted as a last-ditch effort at whipping up the temple mania to gain lost ground.
The mosque, the resolution stresses, "has to be off the 'Shastriya Seema' of Ayodhya as described in Ram Charitmanas," which literally pushes any proposed replica of the 16 century Babri Masjid out of the town limit. It also categorically states that "no mosque named after a 'videshi atatayi' (foreign invader) will be allowed to come up in any part of Bharat". This declaration is, however, soft-cushioned by a proposal: "If the Muslims agree to the sane advise and decide to shift the mosque outside Ayodhya, Hindus will help out in construction by rendering kar seva."
Last meeting of the VHP Kendriya Prabandh Samiti was held in Ayodhya three months before the Babri demolition. The event, therefore, gained significance and led to much speculation in the government. "We have made our stand clear. Ram Lala needs to be housed after having roughed it out in tents and barsati for 20 long years," said Ayodhya VHP unit incharge Sharad Sharma. There can be no compromise on the issue any more, he added.
The meet also passed the final blueprint of the Jagran Yatra which will be officially launched from Ayodhya on August 16. At nine sharp on the prescribed date, 5,000-odd temples in Ayodhya will begin a simultaneous recitation of Hanuman Chalisa as the inaugural ceremony. Leading it all will be the head of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Mahant Nrityagopal Das, the head of Akhil Bhartiya Akhada Parishad and head mahant of famous Hanuman Garhi temple Mahant Gyandas and former Ayodhya MP RVD Vednati.
The four months mega jamboree will cover two lakh villages and 10 lakh temples across the nation to give a wakeup call to the Hindus, said Sharma. The blueprint of the yatra is said to be a follow up of the Kumbh resolution passed by the dharmachryas which called for a massive mobilisation and awareness campaign.
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