VHP goes ahead with temple plans

NEW DELHI: Unfazed by what they describe as the rhetorical concessions granted by the BJP at Raipur, the men who matter in the VHP are seen to be going ahead with their plan to launch construction activity on and around the disputed site at Ayodhya anytime after October 2 this year.
Volunteers of the VHP have already been told to fan out into the rural areas of all the 17 districts in the Awadh-Kashi-Gorakhapur belt to keep the protagonists of the temple movement in a fighting-fit position.The reawakened masses would stream into Ayodhya from all directions to build the Ram temple at the lord''s birthplace at the disputed site, once the high-level committee of the Dharma Sansad gives its green signal, a source at Ayodhya''s Karsevakpuram said.
Significantly, the Dharma Sansad’s high level committee is sticking to its meeting schedule on September 13 at an undisclosed place despite the BJP’s Raipur rhetoric. To take emergency decisions in the meantime, a five-member sub-committee has been formed under the leadership of Mahant Avaidyanath. Shankaracharya Vasudevananda and Yugpurush Paramanand are also members of this sub-committee. Thanks to the hardline views of these leaders, it is clear that there would hardly be any let-up in the pressure on the Vajpayee-led NDA government.