Swamy takes up Ram temple issue with Modi

The BJP leader wants a Ram Temple rebuilding committee on the Somnath temple model.

August 23, 2014 05:52 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:45 pm IST - New Delhi

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate steps to rebuild the Ram Temple in Ayodhya by 2016 and fulfil the party’s commitment to the electorate.

In a letter to Mr. Modi, he has suggested appointment of a former Chief Justice of India like S H Kapadia as the executor who may liaise with a designated minister like Gen V K Singh.

The designated minister, Mr. Swamy said, may issue notice to the hereditary supervisor of Babri Masjid asking him to formally withdraw his claim to the Ram Janmabhoomi and offer him an alternative site for a masjid to be built at public expense across the Saryu river.

The former Minister also suggested calling a meeting of Islamic clerics including from abroad and seek an endorsement and if it is not forthcoming then Government should move an enabling bill in the Parliament and get it passed.

He wants a Ram Temple rebuilding committee on the Somnath temple model.

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