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'RSS chief yet to reply regarding temple land'

Indore Jan. 4. The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, today said that he was yet to receive any response from the RSS chief. K. C. Sudarshan, for handing over the land adjacent to the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain.

Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Singh said he had not received any response to his letter from the Sangh chief for handing over the land to enhance the security for the temple in view of the Simhast fair scheduled for 2004.

On the BJP State unit president, Kailash Joshi's reported statement that the RSS had not demanded even 25 paise for the land refuting the Chief Minister's claim that the Sangh had demanded Rs. 25 crores, Mr. Singh said that he respected the senior BJP leader, ``but many a times he (Joshi) doesn't know what is happening.''

Woh bhole bhandari hain (he is a simpleton), the Chief Minister said adding ``he (Mr. Joshi) frequently sleeps, and therefore, many a times doesn't know what is happening.''

Mr. Singh, in a letter to Mr. Sudarshan, asked the RSS chief to use his good offices to free three lakh square feet of land adjacent to the temple from the Sangh's possession and claimed that the saffron outfit had demanded compensation of Rs. 25 crores for the land.

PTI

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