PATNA, INDIA, March 8, 2002: The Bharat Sadhu Samaj on Friday accused the VHP of abject surrender on the issue of temple construction at Ayodhya by committing itself to adhere to the Court’s verdict. ”The VHP’s abject surrender on the Ayodhya issue is under political pressure…..The VHP leaders should desist from misguiding the Hindus any further,” the BSS general secretary, Swami Harinarayananand, said in a statement here. ”It (VHP) has played with the sentiments of millions of people as the birthplace of Lord Rama is only one in the world which cannot be adjudicated, shifted or altered,” he said. There was no point in pressing ahead with shilapujan on March 15, he said adding that by its surrender before the Prime Minister, the VHP has, in one stroke, laid waste all the sacrifices made by hundreds of karsevaks. The swami said since the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court was looking into the title claims between the Nirmohi Akhara of Ayodhya and the Sunni-Shia board, the VHP should not have come into the picture. He suggested that the matter could best be settled by mutual consent and understanding between the religious leaders of the two communities of Ayodhya.
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