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No power on earth, not even SC, can prevent Ram temple, says VHP

Vishwa Hindu Parishad general secretary Giriraj Kishore said no power on earth -- not even the Supreme Court -- can stop it from building a Ram temple at Ayodhya.

''Duniya ki koi shakti Ram mandir banane se rok nahin sakti (no power on earth can prevent the construction of Ram temple),'' he said in an interview to a weekly news magazine in New Delhi, adding that work was on in full swing to put up a temple at Ayodhya.

A grand temple would come up in two years at the place where the Babri mosque was demolished on December 6, 1993, he said.

Kishore's statement comes on the heels of a similar interview by party leader Ashok Singhal to another weekly magazine. Singhal's statements sparked off a furore in Parliament yesterday.

''What is our work now? Only to make the temple bhavya. In India there is only one dharma -- that is Hinduism. The others are mazhabs," Kishore said.

He said he expected the Bharatiya Janata Party government ''to remove all impediments'' to the construction of the temple.

''The land will be definitely handed over to us.''

Kishore said puja at the disputed site cannot be stopped. ''Nobody can move the makeshift temple... The courts these days are concentrating more on finding out who demolished Babri mosque. They are not concentrating on anything else.''

Although title suits are still in court, this would pose no problems to the VHP, according to Kishore. ''Title hai to hum taiyar kar lenge maal, par mandir banega nischit (if there is the title, we will prepare ourselves, but the temple will definitely be constructed)."

UNI

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