Ayodhya is a movement: Vajpayee

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>OFBJP Admin >vaidika1008 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com >[bJP News]: Ayodhya is

a movement: Vajpayee >Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:27:53 -0500 > >Title: Ayodhya is

a movement: Vajpayee >Author: PTI >Publication: Times of India >Dec. 20,

2000 > > NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on > Tuesday asserted

that Ayodhya was a "movement" and > appealed to Opposition parties not to

politicise the issue for > electoral gains as it would only divide the country.

> > Replying to a two-day discussion in the Rajya Sabha on a > Congress

sponsored nine-party motion on Ayodhya, > Vajpayee also warned that any

communalisation of the issue > would only create fresh tensions. > > "Let

Ayodhya not divide us," he said assuring the > Opposition that the government

would abide fully by the > verdict of the Supreme Court on the issue if the

political > parties so desire. > > Vajpayee made it clear that the NDA

government was > committed to the national agenda of governance which had >

kept out such contentious issues and rejected once again the > demand for

resignation of three charge-sheeted ministers in > the Ayodhya demolition case.

> > On the demand for resignation of three ministers, L K > Advani, Murli

Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati, Vajpayee > said if anybody was implicated in a

court case, he should > resign but in case of Ayodhya there is a "difference".

> > "Ayodhya is a movement. A movement which was being > sought to be opposed

by you (Opposition)," he said amidst > shouts of shame shame from the

opposition benches. > > Ayodhya case should be differentiated, Vajpayee said

adding > he was willing to sit with the Opposition to evolve > parameters for

ministers to resign on the question of > propriety. > > "Parameters should be

uniform," he said adding there > cannot be one set of rules for the three

Central ministers > and another for RJD leader Laloo Prasad Yadav. (PTI)

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