Ram temple construction after Shivratri: VHP

HOSHANGABAD (M.P.), JULY 22. The organising secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Mr. Vinayak Rao Deshpande, has said that construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya would begin any day after Shivratri on March 12 next year. About thirty lakh workers from across the country would reach Ayodhya and remain there till the construction was completed.

Announcing this at a meeting of VHP workers on Saturday, Mr. Deshpande said ``the VHP feels it has given enough time to the Centre. It will not be given any more time to remove hurdles in the construction of the temple.''

`Attack terrorist camps'

Responding to Saturday's militant attack on Amarnath yatra, which claimed 13 lives, the VHP today asked the Centre to carry out military strikes against terrorist training camps in Pakistan (a report from New Delhi said). The fact that the victims included Muslims proved that ``it (Kashmir issue) is not a religious conflict but pure terrorism,'' the VHP president, Mr. Vishnu Hari Dalmia, said.

He also called for an end to peace talks with Islamabad which was a ``meaningless exercise.'' ``By describing terrorism in Kashmir as freedom struggle, Pakistan has left us with little option but to strike and destroy training camps there.''

- PTI

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