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NEW DELHI, JAN. 28. Within a day after the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, told the VHP leaders that their demand for handing over the land around the disputed structure in Ayodhya to the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas for construction of a Ram temple would be referred to the Union Law Ministry for its opinion, the Law Minister, Arun Jaitley, began the exercise of examining the various legal issues connected with the dispute.

According to highly-placed government sources, Mr. Jaitley will seek the opinion of experts in the next few days before finalising the Ministry's opinion. But sources declined to indicate whether such an opinion would be tendered before the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh to be held next month.

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