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VHP to review commitment to abide by court verdict

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday said it would reconsider its earlier commitment to abide by the court verdict on the contentious Ram Janambhoomi issue and chalk out a polarisation programme at the crucial meeting of its apex advisory body beginning in Haridwar on June 22.

"We (VHP) had agreed to abide by the court verdict in the run-up to the shiladaan programme on March 15 as the Muslim Personal Law Board agreed not to move the court and the government assured it would remove all obstacles in our path. However, both went back on their words," VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia said.

"Any trilateral agreement cannot be binding on a single party alone. We will rethink on it at the two-day meeting of the Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal in Haridwar and take a major decision. Moreover, it was the Ram Janambhoomi Nyas and not the VHP which gave the assurance to the government," he said.

VHP international working president Ashok Singhal in his capacity as the managing trustee of the Nyas had given a written assurance to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee following mediation by the Kanchi Shankaracharya Swami Jayendra Saraswati between the Sangh Parivar and All India Muslim Personal Law Board.

However, the Board later rejected the Seer's peace moves terming it as 'inchoate'. The government did not allow the VHP to carry out its programme to donate carved stone at the disputed site, but allowed a symbolic shiladaan outside the acquired land with its Ayodhya Cell incharge Shatrughan Singh receiving a stone from Nyas president Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans.

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