Ram temple: Sena puts pressure on BJP
NEW DELHI: The Shiv Sena on Thursday stepped up pressure on the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) during the Winter Session of Parliament over the Ayodhya issue, accusing the ruling party of doing nothing in last four-and-a-half years to build a Ram temple, despite having a full majority in the Lok Sabha.
Raising the matter in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour, Sena demanded that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the centre should expedite the matter in the Supreme Court, which is currently hearing the dispute, or bring an ordinance at the earliest to build the temple.
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with fought Sena the has the BJP been 2014 ever at Maharashtra loggerheads since they assembly and has been election critical separately, of the Narendra policies. Modi government’s economic
had Adsul taken reminded out a yatra the BJP under that the it leadership of LK Advani in 1990 for construction of the temple, and accused it of having forgotten its core issue of Hindutva–an ideology which brought the two parties together.
Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had visited Ayodhya on November 25 as part of his party’s push to build a Ram temple there.