Any govt action on Ram temple after completion of judicial process: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday suggested any decision on an ordinance on Ram temple in Ayodhya can happen only after the completion of the judicial process but asserted that the government was ready to make all efforts to fulfil its responsibility.

Modi's comments came amidst heightened demands by Hindutava organisations, including the RSS, for an ordinance to allow the temple construction.

"Let the judicial process take its own course. Don't weigh it in political terms. Let the judicial process be over. After the judicial process is over, whatever be our responsibility as government, we are ready to make all efforts," the Prime Minister said during an interview, broadcast by several TV channels.

Welcoming Modi's remarks as a "positive" step towards the construction of the Ram temple, the RSS said it was in line with a resolution passed by the BJP in 1989 in Palampur in which the Saffron party had committed to the construction either through mutual consultation or an enabling legislation.

However, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut reacted sharply, wondering "whether law is bigger than lord Ram."
Rejecting opposition charges that his government was anti-farmer, the Prime Minister said,"there is a small segment of farmers who take loans from banks. A majority of them take loans from money lenders. When governments make such announcements, those farmers do not become beneficiaries of waivers. The farmers who are dying are out of the purview of such schemes."