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Decision on Ram temple will be taken at right time: Shah
Surat, May 27
BJP President Amit Shah on
Wednesday asserted that his party was not on the backfoot on the Ram
temple issue and a decision in this regard would be taken at the right
time.
Shah's statement came a day after he said the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) lacked the numbers in the Lok Sabha to address core
issues such as the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya, Uniform
Civil Code and abolition of the Constitution's Article 370 giving Jammu
and Kashmir a special status.
"We are not at all on the
backfoot on the Ram temple issue. The party will take a decision at the
right time," Shah told reporters here.
"The case is pending
before the Supreme Court. As and when the judgment of the Supreme Court
comes, we will follow it and everybody else also must respect it," Shah
said.
"We also believe that another way of construction of Ram
temple is to resolve the issue by talks with all the parties. We can
also find a way through an out-of-court settlement. Both the options
are open for us," he said.
Shah, however, denied that he had said
anything on the Ram temple issue while addressing the media at the
party headquarters in Delhi.
"Yesterday, no one said anything on
the Ram temple; neither the person who asked the question nor the person
who answered that question," he clarified.
"There is no
helplessness on Kashmir issue. Article 370 is not only an issue of Jammu
and Kashmir government, but it needs two-thirds majority," Shah said.