Law on Ram temple after other options are exhausted: Dy CM

VARANASI: Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will enact a law in Parliament to facilitate the construction of grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya only after other options like amicable out of court settlement or favourable court ruling are exhausted.

“But this is a surety that a grand Ram temple will be constructed on Ramjanmbhoomi site in Ayodhya,” said the deputy CM in response to a query by media persons. Maury a was here to offer prayers to Baba Kashi Vishwanath at Kashi Vishwanath Temple on Tuesday. He also inaugurated the BJP OBC executive meeting at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. Asked about his reaction on a tweet by Congress President Rahul Gandhi on alleged corruption charges against a senior CBI officer, Maurya said, “Rahul Gandhi has become an automatic lie machine.

Earlier, he claimed to have made a machine to extract gold. Now he is speaking baseless things against the CBI.” Maurya said Rahul Gandhi, who is leading the grand alliance against PM Narendra Modi, must tell who would be the PM candidate for the opposition. He said that with the blessings of Baba Kashi Vishwanath, support of the people and the hard work of the party workers, the BJP would break its record of 2014 in general election 2019. PM Modi will win election with a record margin, he said.

On former VHP president Praveen Togadia forming a separate party, Maurya said such political parties will have no impact on the BJP.

Meanwhile, Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said everybody was in favour of construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and it would come soon.

“But since the matter is in the Supreme Court, it would not be appropriate to comment on it,” she said. On a law on the issue, she said the government would take a decision on the matter. She was here to participate in the state BJP OBC executive meet.