RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s assertion that a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya will help end tension among Hindus and Muslims drew flak from BSP chief Mayawati who Thursday claimed that a “narrow” mindset was not conducive for cordial relations. Mayawati also criticised the Centre over bringing an ordinance to ban instant Triple Talaq saying a ‘sensitive’ issue was being used for selfish politics.
“We do not agree with the RSS chief’s logic that a grand temple in Ayodhya will help end tensions between Hindus and Muslims...Relations between narrow, Sanghi Hindus and Muslims will not improve even if many temples come up instead of one,” the BSP chief said in a party release here. Attacking the RSS, Mayawati said “Their basic mindset is against Dalits, Muslims and the minorities and this is the reason why the BJP, which has originated from them, has adopted policies that are tarnishing democracy of the country”.
The former UP chief minister said the first thing the RSS needs to do is to change its “communal and hatred-ridden thinking” and adopt a humanitarian approach in consonance with the Constitution which they have “not achieved so far”.
