Ram bhakts in treasury benches nervous: RSS

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">bangalore: in a veiled attack on the bjp members of the vajpayee government, the rss on friday took a dig at the "hesitation and nervousness of ram <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">bhakts</span> sitting in the treasury benches" on the ayodhya issue but said the, "fast growing, countrywide hindu awakening" and peaceful solution of the issue would command popular support."while we note the zeal of the sants and ram <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">sevaks</span> for the construction of the ram temple, the hesitation and nervousness of the ram <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">bhaktas</span> sitting on treasury benches is also visible", rss general secretary mohanrao bhagwat told the rss annual meet here in an apparent reference to the bjp''s current compulsions on account of coalition politics. sharply criticising the opposition parties for trying to gain political mileage on the issue, he said, "they are the ones who have gathered some electoral mileage after the recent elections and want to earn further political advantage by creating such hurdles". "while on the one hand, the number of those willing to build ram temple at ram janambhoomi has increased, on the other, are those who are bent upon creating hurdles in the way of the construction", bhagwat said. noting that lakhs and lakhs of ram <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">sevaks</span> were waiting to go to ayodhya with "fervour", the rss leader said, "anti-hindu communal and fundamentalist forces are intriguing to crush that fervour, through terrorist violence like the godhra incident". bhagwat expressed confidence that owing to the "fast growing, countrywide hindu awakening", efforts towards a peaceful solution to the ram janambhoomi issue would command popular support. "we must recognise the fact that it is the pressure of hindu awakening that the national situation will gradually but certainly take a new turn which will expose to the world all the filth and deceit and witness the anti-hindutva elements meeting their doom", bhagwat said. giving a clarion call to workers to put in maximum efforts so as to make the work of sangh "all pervasive, steady and dynamic", he said this was all the more important in order to maintain the "alertness and preparedness of the society to cross that turn of the crisis safely and peacefully". complimenting the government for its stern stand at doha meet of wto in the genuine economic interests of the country, he was critical of "wrong economic policies of the government due to the pressure of foreign debt", which led to indigenous small scale industries, farmers, labourers and artisans being cornered to a stage bordering bankruptsy and starvation. lamenting terrorism and killing of innocent people at various places, bhagwat paid homage to 57 people, "who fell martyrs near godhra railway station at the hands of anti-hindu fundamentalist forces bent upon frightening the hindus vis-a-vis the ram mandir movement through terrorist tactics". however, he made no reference to the victims of communal violence in gujarat in the wake of godhra massacre. </div> </div>