Bangalore, May 10: Welcoming Monday’s Supreme Court order that stayed the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the vexed Ayodhya dispute, the RSS said it continues to evince keen interest in the out-of-court settlement to end the centuries of uncertainty.
“At the present juncture, a central legislation, perhaps, is the only way to end the dispute as the door for negotiations was shut as the parties to the dispute approached the Supreme Court against the Allahabad high court verdict. Had they come forward for talks (in the light of the Allahabad high court verdict), the outcome, perhaps, could have been positive and the solution enduring,” RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav told Express here on Monday.
He, however, hastened to add that the issue has gone too far in the courts and it is difficult to bring it out of the judiciary. “It would be difficult but not impossible, if it is taken in a pragmatic perspective,” Madhav said.
The RSS sees two positive elements. One: that the highest court of the land has allowed poojas and other rituals to continue, which, according to the Sangh Pariwar, means indirectly admitting that the land indeed is Ram Janma Bhoomi as said by the Allahabad High court. Two: That the Allahabad high court judgement was fundamentally a flawed one as it had given one-third of the land to the side which had not prayed for anything.
He reiterated that the RSS continues to stand for construction of a grand Ram temple at the spot which is believed to be the birth place of Ram.
–Agencies