Summary:
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Kshetra Trust’s general secretary and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) vice-president Champat Rai quoted on Friday that the organisation’s single focus was the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and it was at present not possible to support any claims over Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and Shahi Idgah in Mathura.
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Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Kshetra Trust’s general secretary and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) vice-president Champat Rai quoted on Friday that the organisation’s single focus was the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and it was at present not possible to support any claims over Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and Shahi Idgah in Mathura.
Rai was in the city on Friday to chair a meeting of office-bearers of the four pranths of VHP’s Lucknow Kshetra at Kesar Bhawan.
He said, “Wise are those who take up a mission and then work dedicatedly to complete it and only then move on to the next task.
In the present circumstances, the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhyay is our single-point agenda and it is not possible to take up the Kashi and Mathura issue.”
Comment on Mathura and Varanasi mosques comes at a time when Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP) the apex body of conventual orders in the country had said that it is ready to go to court, if the issue is not resolved in cordial manner.
In Varanasi, Kashi Vishwanath Temple shares a boundary with the Gyanvapi mosque.
In Mathura, the Shahi Idgah is adjacent to the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple complex.
Rai said that although he doesn’t take any decisions in VHP and only give his advice, in his opinion VHP is at present fully focused on the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.
“Hence, Mathura and Kashi for the moment are not on his organisation’s agenda.”
Talking about the 19-year-old woman who was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Hathras, Rai said that law-breakers should be dealt with strictly.