Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: May 18, 2003
BJP national president Venkaiah
Naidu today his party favoured enacting a legislation to pave the way for
construction of a "grand" Ram temple at Ayodhya, but made it clear that
it would not force its alliance partners to accept its line.
"We are leading a coalition. If
they (partners) support us it is good, but we will not force them," he
told reporters here.
Naidu also justified the stand taken
by the Centre before the Liberhan Commission, saying there was no dispute
that Ayodhya was the birthplace of Lord Ram.
"The Centre's stand (that the disputed
site was the birthplace of Lord Ram) only reflected the conviction of the
people of the country and there is no contradiction in its stand," Naidu
told reporters here.
He added that a solution to "this
problem" could only be arrived at either through talks or a court order.
