Bhopal: Union minister Uma Bharti Sunday said people would be “surprised” and “shocked” if no solution was found to the Ram temple issue, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath being at the helm at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh respectively.
Bharti is among the leaders who have been at the forefront of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) efforts to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.
“When Modiji is the prime minister and Yogiji is the chief minister (of UP), and even then if no way is found for the construction of the Ram temple, then the masses will be surprised as to why were we unable to find a way for (building ) the Ram temple. It will be a shock to the people,” she told reporters here.
Bharti added that the temple had a “major role” in the BJP rising from just two Lok Sabha seats (in 1984) to 84 seats — when the temple movement gained momentum in 1989 — to 284 seats in the 2014 general polls.
“Therefore, with Modi as the prime minister and Yogi (as the UP chief minister), people have high hopes that a way should be found for the construction of the Ram temple,” the Union minister of drinking water and sanitation said.
“Even today I will say this, whether it is an Act or an Ordinance, you have to find an amicable way for the Ram temple. You cannot just do it by bringing an Act for everything. Especially, when there is a lot of opposition in the society. “Therefore, earlier too I had suggested an amicable solution and everybody should support it,” she said. (PTI)
