‘Hindus insulted by top court’s comments’

Hindu nationalist outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) yesterday said the Hindu community felt “insulted” by the recent observations of the country’s Supreme Court on the Ram temple dispute. It caused them “deep anguish”, he said.

“We were expecting good news before this Diwali. But the Supreme Court refused to give a verdict. It is surprising that the feelings of crores of Hindus are not the court’s priority,” said RSS joint general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi, at the end of the outfit’s three-day national executive meeting in Maharashtra.

The top Court had on Monday adjourned till January the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging Allahabad High Court’s (HC) judgement trifurcating the disputed site at Ayodhya into three parts, for Ram Lalla (infant Lord Ram), Nirmohi Akhara and Sunni Waqf Board.

Yesterday, Joshi said the RSS would take up a 1992like agitation, if there was more delay in the case. “In order to ensure the construction of a Ram temple, we will take up the agitation like the one that happened in 1992, when Babri mosque was demolished by Hindu volunteers,” he said.