New Delhi: Union home minister Rajnath Singh and BJP veteran leader LK Advani reiterated that dream of Mahant Avaidyanath's to build Ram temple in Ayodhya will soon be fulfilled.
While reportes asked the safforn party leaders about the unfulfilld dream of Mahant who died on Friday night,Rajnath said that his dream of constructing Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Former deputy prime minister Advani, who was standing beside, nodded in unison.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and senior BJP leader L K Advani paid their respects to former MP and head of Gorakhnath peeth Mahant Avaidyanath, who died here yesterday.
Both the leaders refused to elaborate on their statements.
Mahant Avaidyanath, had been in the forefront of the movement for Ram Temple in Ayodhya in 1980s and always have been considered as a senior pontiff of Ram Janmabhoomi Mukti Andolan (Rama Birth Place Liberation Movement. Avaidyanath had represented Gorakhpur seat the Lok Sabha four times and been MLA from Maniram seat five times1962, 1967, 1969, 1974 and 1977 He was elected Lok Sabha member from Gorakhpur as an Independent candidate in 1970 and won again in 1989 as candidate of Hindu Mahasabha. He was elected MP from the same seat in 1991 and 1996 as Bharatiya Janata Party nomine.
Describing the Mahant as "a leading star of Ramjanmabhoomi movement", Singh said, "We are shocked by his demise. He was a great social, religious and spiritual leader. It is a loss of the state and the country. He was a patriotic leader and country will always remember him."
The mortal remains would be given 'samadhi' in the temple before which Yogi Adityanath would be anointed as the new 'peethdheshwar' tomorrow. Mahant Avaidyanath had breathed his last here last night following prolonged illness. Advani and Singh also met the successor of the late Mahant and party MP, Yogi Adityanath and expressed their deep sympathies and prayed for peace for the departed soul.
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