News Analysis
On the face of it, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s declaration, that the organisation had made an exception in the case of the Ramjanmabhoomi movement in Ayodhya to plunge into the movement and lead it, is something he has said before, but the his speech on Thursday where he states that there is “no need to look for Shivlings in every Masjid” is a line that the RSS and the BJP seem to have agreed on.
Three days before Mr. Bhagwat’s address at the concluding ceremony of the RSS Tritiya Varg (third year training), BJP president J.P. Nadda had said much the same thing — that the issue of Gyanvapi was to be settled via courts or the Constitution. Mr. Nadda had also pointed out that after the Palampur resolution of 1989, when the BJP decided to back the Ramjanmabhoomi movement, there had been “no other resolutions” for other such issues.
