The solution lies in an agreement between Hindus and Muslims, he said.
The outfit, however, backtracked on its demand for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to resign.
The outfit's international president Ashok Singhal said there was no need for a new mosque in Ayodhya.
The right-wing outfit also accused the Centre of working on a deal to abandon the Kashi and Mathura temple issue.
The newly inducted minister of state for home, however, hoped his joining the government will give a boost to Hindutva.
The retired Supreme Court judge probing the Godhra incident and the riots that followed it said it will be wrong to say the riots targeted one community.
The activists were proceeding to Pratapgarh to raze the tomb of a 17th century Mughal general, Afzal Khan, at the foothills of the fort.
He said the poojas will be held one day prior and after the visit of the Rajasthan chief minister.
Togadia was arrested on April 13 for delivering an inflammatory speech during a trishul distribution ceremony at a dharam sabha.
J&K Director General of Police A K Suri said the police learnt about the attacks following the arrest of Zia Mustafa, LeT's district commander-cum-finance chief for Anantnag.
Shashikant, an alleged local leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, was one among the 46 accused named in three FIRs lodged at the Naroda Patiya police station in 2002 in connection with the the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.
Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, VHP vice-president Giriraj Kishore said hundreds of thousands of 'Ram Bhakts' would be involved in the construction of the temple.
Ramchandra Das Paramhans said on the occasion that a mosque would not be allowed to be built at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
The BJP, however, defended Vajpayee for his Goa musings, in which he said some peoples projection of Hindutva in an extremist manner was not acceptable.
"Whatever the sants decide, we will certainly execute that," VHP vice-president Acharya Giriraj Kishore.
The VHP will put up boards in various places all over the country declaring India a Hindu Rashtra.
VHP leader Pravin Togadia cautioned the BJP against taking his organisation for granted.
'The violence in Bangladesh has been used as an excuse to start violence by communal political fanatics.'
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad had no qualms seeking a state government car for its general secretary Praveen Togadia to tour Rajasthan.
Ashok Singhal asks the prime minister to mend his "secular" ways.
Nearly 450 people were picked up at the Ayodhya and Faizabad railway stations, 400 in Varanasi and 350 in Allahabad as authorites hinted at seeking the army's help if the situation so warranted.
Speaking to reporters in Jammu, VHP international president Ashok Singhal said Vajpayee has weakened the country and has shown little regard for the Hindu sentiment
'My neighbours are Muslims, but we have never faced any communal problems. We have all been living in harmony'
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