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Court verdict will be final: Advani

LUCKNOW, FEB. 18. The Union Home Minister, L.K. Advani, today said the court verdict would be final on the Ayodhya issue. Mr. Advani, on way to Varanasi for an election campaign, said here that while status quo would be maintained on the site, the court's decision would be final.

The Law Minister's report on land acquisition was not time-bound. It was upto the Law Ministry to give its views and further discussions could be held later, the Home Minister said. Mr. Advani claimed that while the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders and the saints had a three-hour meeting with the Prime Minister, in which he was also present, there was no formal discussion on the issue with any other party

. ``We have never said we were talking with the Babri Masjid Action Committee on the issue'', he added.

People gave open suggestions, but the Government had talks only with the VHP, Mr. Advani said.

`A matter of faith'

The Union Minister, Uma Bharati, today said the Ayodhya issue would remain unresolved if it was left to the court to decide the birth place of lord Rama.

``The matter would remain hanging in the court and as it is there, it would remain unresolved and continue to be a national problem,'' she told Aaj Tak.

Stating that the court would have a problem in proving the birth place of lord Rama, she said it was a matter of faith.

Ritambhara unhappy

The VHP leader, Sadhvi Ritambhara, has exhorted people to respond to the VHP's `chalo Ayodhya' call as ``a powerful expression of Hindu solidarity to give a fitting reply to the politics of appeasement''.

Addressing a rally at Patwardhan Grounds at Nagpur last evening, Sadhvi Ritambhara criticised the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's admission that he had failed to resolve the temple issue and that the court would take a decision. ``These are dilly-dallying tactics,'' she said.

The VHP would begin construction of the temple from March 15, she asserted. The construction would be postponed only if the nation was engaged in a war with Pakistan, she added.

- UNI, PTI

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