"Lord Ram is being worshipped in each and every house. He is present everywhere in the country. But it is not proper for anyone to construct Ram Temple in Ayodhya by flaring up communal bitterness," Singh told reporters at the Indore Press Club.
"Who doesn't want to construct Ram Temple in Ayodhya. But will Lord Ram like that his temple is constructed by demolishing the religious place of others and disrespecting their feelings," he quipped.
However, he added that had a solution been possible by discussion, the issue would not have lingered for 35-40 years in courts.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi should leave these issues of temple-mosque and focus on solving basic issues like, unemployment, malnutrition and poverty," he said.
Attacking BJP, he said that it is encashing the temple issue politically for years. Despite getting majority in the Lok Sabha in 2014 and in Uttar Pradesh in recent polls, the party is trying to find the solution of constructing Ram Temple in Ayodhya covertly.
"If in the 1996 general elections, Rao's government had not lost elections, then the Ram Temple issue would have been solved long time back," he claimed.
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