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Murli Manohar Joshi. If some hush- written opinions and maps and
hush talks could be believed, even the drawings were submitted in a sealed
three states where BJP suffered politi- envelope before the full Lucknow
cal debacle, a large number of the dis- bench of the Allahabad High Court,
traught RSS volunteers did not cam- which was later made public, but
paign in support of the BJP. Muslim Personal Law Board and
Babri Mosque Action Committee
Temple issue relegated rejected that a temple existed be-
Priyanka’s arrival on the national scene fore the Mir Baqui had erected the
accompanied by Prime Minister Nar- mosque. It had disclosed that there
endra Modi’s refusal to concede the The ultimate was archaeological evidence of a
demand to rebuild the Ram temple in sacrifices of her massive structure just below the
Ayodhya through an ordinance route disputed structure and evidence of
bypassing the on-going Supreme Court family blended with continuity in structural activities
hearing has shifted the electoral agen- her polite, but regal from the 10th century onwards up
da to the development and economic to the construction of the disputed
issues. However, the on-going hear- poise, Priyanka is structure.
ing before the Supreme Court is being feared by all the non- The dispute has psychological issue
keenly followed. Even if the hearing is being faced by the Hindus and Mus-
completed before the elections, it is dif- Congress political lims. It is true that if left to themselves
ficult to predict the final order of the both Hindus and Muslims could have
apex court or whether it will be pro- outfits across the resolved the ticklish temple-mosque
nounced before the polls. country as a great dispute of Ayodhya, but the politi-
A 574-page Archeological Survey cal agenda for electoral gains has
of India or ASI report consisting of vote catcher kept it alive all these years. An agree-
