Ayodhya Ram Temple: Mayawati, head of BSP, asked the Dalits to follow the path indicated by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.
Lucknow:
A day after Dalit spiritual leader Mahamandelshwar Kanhaiya Prabhunandan Giri questioned his exclusion from the dedication ceremony of Ayodhya Ram temple, BSP president Mayawati said today that an invitation would have been in accordance with ” the constitutional intention to create a society without castes “.
The temple’s dedication ceremony is scheduled for August 5. The event, hosted by Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust, is expected to bring together 200 priests and other dignitaries, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Although the BSP supremacy pointed out the exclusion in a series of tweets, they went on to advise people in this oppressed section of society to ignore the alleged snub to the Dalit spiritual leader and firmly walk the path shown by the Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, the father of the Dalit-Buddhist movement which wrote the Constitution of India.
“Instead of getting into all of this, the Dalit community, which has suffered from neglect, contempt and injustice, should focus more on its work and actions for its salvation and in this case too it must follow the path shown by Bhimrao Ambedkar, ”the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh tweeted.
Prime Minister Modi had announced in February in Lok Sabha the formation of a trust for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, following the verdict of the Supreme Court in the case of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in November of the year last.
The Supreme Court’s verdict on November 9 paved the way for a Trust to build a Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya site, and ordered the Center to award 5-acre alternative land to the Sunni Waqf Board for the construction of a new mosque in a “prominent” location in the holy city of Uttar Pradesh.
