It took 17 minutes to demolish Babari, then how much time will it take to make Ram Mandir Law: Sanjay Raut

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE –In what could stir up a possible controversy, Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut on Friday implied that it would not take long to bring an ordinance for construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya when it took only 17 minutes for the Ram bhakts (devotees) to demolish Babri Masjid.

“The Babri mosque was demolished in 17 minutes… in about half an hour what needed to be done was done by the Ram bhakts…the blot which was there since years was brought down,” Raut told reporters, referring to the demolition of the mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.

“How long does it take to prepare papers… to bring ordinance… from the Rashtrapati Bhawan to Uttar Pradesh assembly, they are all BJP governments,” the Shiv Sena leader said.

A big push for Temple construction came on Tuesday when a litigant Mohammad Iqbal Ansari, in the Babri Masjid case, said that he does not have any objection to an ordinance for Ram Temple construction.

On October 29, the Supreme Court had adjourned the title suit till January 2019 to fix the date of hearing in the matter. The top court adjourned the matter which challenged the Allahabad High Court ruling of 2010.

In an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the Sena said it neither moves around with a begging bowl asking for votes in the name of Lord Ram nor does it indulge in “jumlebaazi” (rhetoric) during polls.

“Why did those, who call themselves pro-Hindutva, start getting a stomach ache when we announced our plans of going to Ayodhya? We are not going there for political purposes,” it said.

While slamming the BJP, the Sena said those in power should be proud of Shiv Sainiks who had “destroyed Babur’s raj in Ram Janmabhoomi”. The Babri Masjid was built in Ayodhya on the orders of Mughal emperor Babur.

It claimed the party had not given the slogan “Chalo Ayodhya”, but Shiv Sainiks were going there for Lord Ram’s ‘darshan’ and also because Ayodhya is “nobody’s private place”.

“There is no Ram raj there now, but the raj of the Supreme Court. However, in 1992, Balasaheb’s Shiv Sainiks had destroyed Babur’s raj in Ram Janmabhoomi. Instead of being scared and jealous of such Sainiks, those in power should be proud of them,” the Sena editorial claimed.