Advani is wrong, says VHP

By Our Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD, NOV. 23. The Gujarat unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad today strongly criticised the Union Home Minister, Mr. L. K. Advani, for describing as ``wrong'' the VHP's action in entering the Ayodhya temple and asserted that it was the birthright of Hindus to enter any temple any time.

``It may be Mr. Advani's views but we differ. Mr. Advani is wrong if he believed that the entry in the Ayodhya temple on October 17 was wrong,'' the State unit VHP general secretary, Mr. Dillip Trivedi, said. Being in the government, Mr. Advani might talk about taking actions but Hindus would not give up their right to enter temples, Mr. Trivedi said.

He also criticised the BJP Government in the State which he said had done precious little to implement the ``Hindu agenda.''

It had accepted 39 of the 40-point VHP agenda and had taken some steps for cow protection but had not done enough to satisfy Hindus.

The VHP support to the BJP was not automatic. It would lend support to any party which agreed to implement the ``Hindu agenda.'' Hindus had become united and strong and no party could now ignore the ``Hindu agenda''. ``We have invited the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, to join the ``Mahayagna'' and help construct the Ram Janmabhoomi temple,'' he said.

Giving details of the ``Ram mantra yagna'' beginning from November 26 as a prelude to construction of the Ram temple with or without the government consent, Mr. Trivedi said that in Gujarat over 10,000 persons would chant the ``mantra'' for 13 crore times in 65 days till January 31 at 512 ``siddhkshetras'' identified in the State, each comprising a cluster of 25 villages or 25 housing societies in the urban centres.

This would include 65 clusters in Ahmedabad and the people would have the option to chant the ``mantra'' at home or reach the identified ``sidhhakshetra'', usually a temple complex.

Mr. Trivedi said the VHP had enough funds for construction and carving of the stones had been completed upto the first floor.

A Rs. 8.25-crore corpus was created with donations in the nineties and it had trebled and even after spending Rs. 13 crores so far another about Rs. 11 crores was still left to complete the temple.

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