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VHP to continue `trishul diksha'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI MAY 2. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad seems determined to continue with its `trishul diksha' programme over the next few months, even as it intensifies its campaign among MPs, asking them to support resolution of the Ayodhya issue through a legislation to hand over the disputed land of the Babri-Ram Janmabhoomi complex to the VHP-controlled trust, the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas.

The former Bajrang Dal chief, Surendra Jain, who is now an office-bearer of the VHP, today said the `trishul diksha' programme would be organised across two lakh villages in the country.

They also have plans for a similar function here on May 4. He said that those criticising the VHP had not uttered a word against the distribution of `lathis' by the Rashtriya Janata Dal of Laloo Prasad Yadav. He pointed out that on various occasions the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, had also held aloft a sword.

A massive programme in the rural areas will also be undertaken to mobilise support for the Ram temple, he said, even as he denied that the VHP's programmes were designed to help the BJP in the coming elections to the State Assemblies.

The VHP will ask all MPs to give their views on the Ayodhya issue to try and ascertain support for resolution of the dispute through legislation. This will be done between the ongoing parliamentary session, which is coming to an end, and the start of the monsoon session of Parliament.

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