National   

Ayodhya talks will resume in 10-15 days: Kanchi seer

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE NOV. 30. Talks on the Ayodhya issue would resume in 10 to15 days, the Kanchi Sankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswati, said today at a function here to celebrate the 50th year of his `peetarohana'. Discussions would be held "after the elections (to the Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan Assemblies) are held and the results come out," he told reporters.

Earlier, the State BJP president, Ananth Kumar, said that the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, would step aside and leaders (religious heads) such as Sri Jayendra Saraswati and the Pejawar Math seer, Vishwesha Theertha, "have to resolve the Ayodhya issue and help us build the Ram mandir."

Asked for his reaction, Sri Jayendra Saraswati stressed that Ayodhya was a purely `religious issue' which should be discussed by the religious heads. Politics had to stay out of it, he said.

Asked about the dialogues held by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), he said that was a separate dialogue altogether. "Ours is independent of theirs," he said. And where would the talks be? "It could be at Kanchi or anywhere else."

The Minister for Urban Development in the S.M. Krishna Government, D.K. Shivakumar, commended Sri Jayendra Saraswati for his "good work" in trying to solve the dispute.

C K Jaffer Sharief, MP and former Union Minister, echoed him saying that "attempts are being made to resolve the (Ayodhya) issue."

The Suttur Math seer, Shivarathreeshwara, earlier urged all present not to allow the Ayodhya issue to be a long-drawn-out one.

The Adichunchunagiri Math seer, Balagangadharanatha Swamy, the Kanaka Peeta seer, Birendra Keshava Tharakanadapuri Swamy, and the Kukke Subramanya seer, Vidhyaprasanna Theertha Swamy, also spoke.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

National

News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary |

Stories in this Section

• Keen contest expected in Chhattisgarh
• Kargil war skeletons to be exhumed in courtroom
• Officials to focus on modalities of resuming overflights
• India, Pakistan must cooperate in action against terror: Prodi
• Judev, Rateria to be questioned
• Ayodhya talks will resume in 10-15 days: Kanchi seer
• Ceasefire eases fencing work along the Line of Control
• NCP complains against Jogi
• Printing press employee detained in CAT case
• Chandrika's proposals to end stalemate hailed
• Poll panel notice to BJP chief, candidate
• SIT questions ex-Mumbai police chief in stamp scam
• Fire in CBI office
• Chargesheet served in Taj Corridor scam case
• AIDS patients in 6 States to get free drugs
• Rare Gita manuscripts stolen
• `No leniency should be shown in rape cases'

Copyright © 2003, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu