Maya criticises RSS chief’s temple statement
LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday criticized RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's assertion that a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya will help end tension between the Hindus and the Muslims.
Mayawati also criticised the Centre over bringing an ordinance to ban instant Triple Talaq saying a 'sensitive' issue was being used for selfish politics.
"We do not agree with the RSS chief's logic that a grand temple in Ayodhya will help end tensions between the Hindus and the Muslims... Relations between narrow, Sanghi Hindus and Muslims will not improve even if many temples come up instead of one," the BSP chief said in a party release here.
Attacking the RSS, Mayawati said, "Their basic mindset is against the Dalits, Muslims and the minorities and this is the reason why the BJP, which has originated from them, has adopted policies that are tarnishing democracy of the country".
The former UP chief minister said the first thing the RSS needed to do was to change its "communal and hatred-ridden thinking" and adopt a humanitarian approach in consonance with the Constitution, which they had "not achieved so far".
“This is why they have not yet gained acceptance in the 'sarv samaj',” Mayawati claimed.
Terming the three-day RSS conclave as politically "motivated" so as to divert attention from the raging problems, Mayawati said the RSS too was concerned over the vast anger among people over the "pro-captalist and anti-poor policies" of the BJP governments at the Centre and states. RSS chief Bhagwat had on Wednesday strongly pitched for construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya at "the earliest" asserting it would end tension between the Hindus and the Muslims.