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No ordinance on Ram mandir until judicial process is complete, says PM Modi

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Dismissing talk of an ordinance to facilitate building the controversial Ram temple in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government will follow the judicial process.

New Delhi: Any ordinance that will allow the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya can be considered only after the judicial process is completed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday.

“Let the judicial process be over. After the judicial process is over, whatever will be our responsibility as the government, we are ready to make all efforts,” Modi said in an interview to ANI.

The Prime Minister also said the judicial process was being slowed down because Congress lawyers were creating “obstacles”.

“We have said in our BJP manifesto that a solution would be found to this issue under the ambit of the Constitution,” Modi said in response to a question on the ruling BJP using the Ram temple as an emotive political issue ahead of the Lok Sabha elections this summer.


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The Ram temple case is due to be heard by the Supreme Court on 4 January. Petitions have been filed in the top court for day-to-day hearings in the case.

Hindu organisations have expressed their unhappiness over the delay in resolving the matter and there are demands to promulgate an ordinance, similar to the one on triple talaq, to facilitate construction of a temple.

Modi, however, said the government wouldn’t do the same to facilitate a Ram temple.

“The triple talaq ordinance was brought after the Supreme Court verdict, in light of the Supreme court verdict,” he said.

The demand for ordinance has been articulated even by the Shiv Sena, the BJP’s ally in Maharashtra.

“Nobody can deny that those sitting in governments in the last 70 years have tried their best to stall a solution to this (Ayodhya) issue,” Modi said.

He also hit out at the Congress and said it should “not create obstacles” and let the judicial process “take its own course”.

“Don’t weigh it in political terms… I beseech the Congress, for the sake of national peace and amity, they should stop its lawyers from stalling this in the court,” Modi said, adding that all lawyers need to work towards ensuring an early verdict.


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