After Comments On Priyanka Gandhi, BJP's Vinay Katiyar Rakes Up Ram Temple Issue

Senior BJP leader Vinay Katiyar has said the Ram temple matter will always be alive and no compromise can be made over it as it is the party's basic issue.

He on Wednesday said his remarks should not be connected with the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls but the Ram temple must be build in Ayodhya at any cost. It is the basic issue of BJP and the party cannot leave it, he added.

"The Ram Mandir movement that was started by me 30 years



ago became the base for the giant leap of BJP," Katiyar claimed.

"There is no need to connect Ram temple issue with state elections but it is an old matter. It must be raised every time until the construction of the temple," he said.

Supreme Court had recently held that any appeal for votes on the ground of "religion, race, caste, community or language" amounted to "corrupt practice" under the election law provision.