VHP promises Ram temple at Ayodhya after March, 2001

Carving of stones and other preparations for construction of the templehave been going on for the past 10 years, he said. By March, most of thestone-carving would be over and there would be enough material to completethe first floor of the temple where the idol of Ram Lala would be installed, Togadiya added.

On the issue of attacks on Christians, Togadiya gave two different theories, not entirely reconcilable with each other. One appeared to be counter the charge that Christians were targeted after the advent of Sonia Gandhi on the political scene as Congress president. According to him, it was “after Pokharan-II blasts that the Church started a campaign to defame Hindus, Hinduism and the nationalist forces”.

The second theory was that the furore over the attacks was only a bogey raised by the Church to divert attention from its doings in the North-East,where it was “converting tribals at gun-point and victimising the Hindu population”.

He further clarified that by “Church” he meant the 40-odd Christianmissionary organisations with their headquarters abroad, adding that “theaverage Indian Christian was not concerned with their activities”. “Theorthodox Church and the Syrian Christians were also not part of the conspiracy,” he said.

Alleging Church-backed outfits were responsible for several violentincidents in Tripura, Togadiya said that the situation had come to such apass that it was no more the Constitution of India but “the writ of theChurch and the ISI that ran in the areas beyond Agartala”.

He said that the VHP had demanded military action “on the lines of Operation Rhino undertaken in militancy-infested Assam” to deal with the situation in Tripura. Togadiya added that the state government had expressed its inability to deal with the situation with its police force and hence the Central Government should provide the necessary help to the state.

He said that in the past two years, particularly after Pokharan-II, theChurch had launched a smear campaign against Hindus and nationalistforces. They “communalised crime” by differentiating between victims on thebasis of religion and levelled baseless charges to defame Hindus and Hinduism in the world, he said.

“After two years, investigations into most of the crimes has been completed and there is no evidence of involvement of any Hindu organisation in any of the incidents, not even in Graham Staines case,” he claimed.

As for the blasts in churches in the South, it has been revealed that it was a Pakistani organisation that was behind those incidents. “Pakistan wanted to create trouble in India by creating a division between Hindus and Christians. It also wanted to counter its own isolation in the Western world by showing Hindus and India in bad light, and the attitude of the Church and the Congress helped its designs,” Togadiya argued.

He said that the Church had spread a canard against the Hindu society andshould, properly speaking, apologise to it forthwith for its mistake. “Butthe continuing tone and temper of heir statements show that it was not aninadvertent mistake but part of a well thought-out game plan,” Togadiyacharged.