Owaisi challenges Modi govt. to bring ordinance on Ram temple

TIL Desk/National/Hyderabad/ AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has challenged the Modi government to bring in an ordinance for early construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya, amid demands within BJP and some Sangh Parivar outfits to do so.

Soon after the Supreme Court said the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute cases would be heard by an appropriate bench in the first week of January 2019, voices emerged within the BJP, favouring early construction of the temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

Asked if the government may bring an Ordinance under pressure following the demands, Owaisi asked “why don’t they bring it…let them do it. every time they are threatening”. Every Tom, Dick and Harry of BJP, RSS, VHP is saying this. You are in power. Let us see. I challenge them to do it,” Owaisi told.

A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Monday said the future course of hearing in January next year on appeals filed against the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Ayodhya land dispute case would be decided by that bench.

Owaisi said the Apex Court had taken a considered decision that the matter would be heard by an appropriate bench in January (next year) and it would decide the dates. They had also rejected the Uttar Pradesh government’s contention for an early hearing, he said.