PM’s ‘Dream India’ might not necessarily include the Ayodhya temple — VHP

NEW DELHI, SEPT 11: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, by promising to build a ``dream India'', once BJP gets two-thirds majority might ...

NEW DELHI, SEPT 11: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, by promising to build a “dream India”, once BJP gets two-thirds majority might not necessarily have promised the “construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya”, claim BJP and VHP leaders.

“Why do people always rake up Ram Temple issue? It is well-known now that construction of the Ram Temple is not in BJP’s agenda,” says BJP chief Bangaru Laxman.

Vajpayee’s assertion at a VHP conference in New York, to build a dream India, was interpreted as an attempt to build bridges with the Sangh Parivar leaders who are annoyed with him for getting Govindacharya dropped from the list of BJP office-bearers, sidestepping the RSS agenda and attempts to appease the Muslims.

The VHP, did not appear pleased with the Prime Minister’s statement. “He did not consult us on the issue and we don’t know exactly what he meant by dream India,” VHP’s joint general secretary Onkar Bhave told The Indian Express today.

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