The RSS and the VHP today welcomed the Supreme Court's suggestion for settling the Ayodhya issue via negotiations, saying the Ram temple should be built with involvement of all and wanted the Centre to enact a law for it.
While RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale said the Hindutva outfit would support the decision taken by the 'Dharam Sansad,' which organised the Ram Janambhumi movement, VHP chief Pravin Togadia said 'Ram Janmabhumi Nyas' and his organisation has always maintained that the disputed land belonged to 'Bhagwan Ram' and there should be a grand Rama temple there.
"It (the Ram temple issue) is to be decided by the Dharam Sansad as they are the people who organised the entire Ram Janambhumi movement and are also the parties who went to the court.
"The RSS will not decide it. The RSS will go by the Dharam Sansad's decision. The issue should be settled at the earliest and a grand temple should be built with the involvement of all Indians," Hosabale said.
RSS Prachar Pramukh Manmohan Vaidya said a Ram temple at Ayodhya should be built either through dialogue or through a legislation.
"The Ram temple should be constructed either through a dialogue process or a legislation," he told PTI.
The Supreme Court today said the Ayodhya dispute is a sensitive and sentimental issue and asked all parties concerned to sit together to find a solution to the tangle.
A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar earlier today observed the religious issues can be solved through negotiations and suggested that the CJI was ready to take up the task of mediation to arrive at its amicable settlement.
The observations came after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy mentioned the matter before the bench seeking an urgent hearing, saying that it has been over six years and the matter needed to be heard at the earliest.
VHP chief Togadia too batted for a law to facilitate the building of a Lord Rama temple at Ayodhya.
"The Union government must bring and pass the law to build the Ram Temple in Ayodhya at the birth place of Shreeram (Lord Ram)," Togadia said.
He said in 1991, erstwhile Prime Minister Chandrashekhar had tried to get the VHP and the Babri Action Committee to amicably solve the matter.
When the VHP submitted all proofs of a temple being there, the Babri Action Committee abandoned that meeting, he alleged.
"With Georadar and excavation by ASI under (supervision) of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court, it has already been proved that there was a grand temple at the site of Babri structure. The Lucknow bench of high court has accepted that there are enough proof of the existence of the temple on the site of Babri structure," he said.
Togadia added that even the Muslims had agreed that if the temple existed at the disputed site, they would withdraw their claim.
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