To build Ram Mandir, BJP should do what Indira Gandhi did!

Despite the Allahabad High Court giving its verdict in 2010 that the Babri structure was built over the ruins of an existing temple ( believed to be that of Maryada Purushottam Rama’s at the Janmasthan), the Babri Masjid Action Committee incited and supported by the “eminent” Marxist historians and “secular” warriors of the JNU, AMU etc, the matter had been taken to the Supreme Court which seems to be avoiding a verdict . Even if Supreme Court gives a verdict in favour of Rama Mandir the irredentist will take to some other artifice to not allow the construction of the temple. However, the temple can be constructed if the present government takes a lesson from Indira Gandhi and implements her method.

When 14 banks were nationalised, they went to the Supreme Court which gave a judgement that nationalisation was ultra-vires . Indira Gandhi got an ordinance signed by the President and took over the banks. She then wanted to abolish the privy purses which required an amendment to the Constitution. The amending bill was passed in the Lok Sabha but was defeated by one vote in Rajya Sabha. Indira Gandhi dissolved the Lok Sabha and went for the mid-term polls. By her oratory espousing the cause of the poor and socialism for which the abolition of the privy purses and other poor –oriented measures were necessary, she got a thumping majority in the midterm elections in 1972. She amended the Constitution and the privy purses were abolished.

If The BJP and the government led by it are to be proved sincere in their commitment to the re-construction of the Rama temple on the Janmasthan in Ayodhya, Indiraji’s way is the only recourse they should take to ie, issue an ordinance; if it is struck by the Supreme Court, dissolve Lok Sabha, go for early election with Ram Mandir as the prime issue; win it and let the Mandir be constructed and close this matter ones for all.