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Hindus will celebrate Ram Navami at Ram Temple in Ayodhya in 2017: Subramanian Swamy

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 18, Apr 2016, 11:26 am IST | UPDATED: 19, Apr 2016, 12:10 pm IST

Hindus will celebrate Ram Navami at Ram Temple in Ayodhya in 2017: Subramanian Swamy Mumbai: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that work to build the Ram Temple structure in Ayodhya would begin by this year-end.

Swamy said on Sunday that next year, Hindus would celebrate Ram Navami at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

According to a report in the Deccan Chronicle, Swamy said the temple would be built in three months once permission is received from the Supreme Court.

Speaking at an event organised by the Maharashtra chapter of Virat Hindustan Sangam (VHS), an organisation founded by him, Swamy said he was confident about a Ram Temple coming up at the disputed site in Ayodhya and nothing else.

Swamy confidently expressed that nothing other than a Ram Temple would be built at Ayodhya and that he had demanded that the Supreme Court should have daily hearings in the Ram Temple case.

Swamy was speaking at a discussion organised by the Maharashtra chapter of Virat Hindustan Sangam (VHS), an organisation founded by him. According to the VHS website, the organisation is dedicated to “project correct history” and “how to achieve a balance of materialism and spiritualism in life”.

“We will not compromise on demand of three structures: Krishna temple in Mathura, Kashi Vishwanath temple in Allahabad and Ram Temple in Ayodhya,” he said.

The Maharashtra chapter of the VHS organised the discussion on the topic “Why Ram Temple at Ayodhya and how?”

Additional solicitor-general of India G. Rajagopalan also attended the discussion that brought to light the legal issues and evidence of the Archaeological Survey of India that revealed that a Ram Temple existed at the spot in the earlier days and that it was demolished in the year 1528 to construct a mosque.

When Mr Swamy was asked if the issue of Ram Temple was being highlighted in the backdrop of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh next year, he said, “All these are baseless allegations by the Opposition and other parties and if they feel constructing a Ram Temple will benefit the BJP, why do they not voluntarily support the cause? In that case, it will benefit them too.”

Swamy added that he had discussed with Muslim leaders about willingly helping to build a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and they had agreed. “But, when the lawyers of the leaders attended the hearing in Supreme Court, they went silent on the issue and later the judge told me to get in writing from the leaders that they were willing to help. Even if they do not agree, I am positive that the Supreme Court will pass an order in our favour for constructing a Ram Temple and we have won 80 per cent of the case,” he claimed.

Earlier this year, Swamy had moved the Supreme Court seeking construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Mr Swamy had stated that under the practices in Islamic countries, a mosque can be shifted to any other place for public purposes and ‘namaaz’ can be offered anywhere.