Ram Temple should be constructed by 2025: RSS

Answering reporters questions, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Bhaiyaji Joshi said, "It is our wish that the Ram temple be built before 2025."

Asked about the government's stand on the Ram temple issue, he said "ask that to government".

To a query on organisation's demand for an ordinance on the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the RSS leader said, "It is our wish that the construction of Ram temple be completed by 2025."

When suggested whether the RSS was shifting the date of construction of Ram temple to 2025, Joshi said, "It is not so that we are shifting the date later. We are saying that if we start constructing the temple today then it shall be completed by 2025."

His remarks came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a TV interview, had said that the government's role would begin once the the judicial process is over in the Supreme Court and then it would try its best. He was then asked about whether the government would bring an ordinance for constructing the Ram Temple on the lines it had done on the Triple Talaq issue.

The RSS has been demanding the promulgation of an ordinance on Ram temple issue.

Describing the BJP as a party with no regard for ethics, senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said a Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya only when his party comes to power at the Centre.

"The BJP is a party of unethical people. Those who have no regard for ethics and dignity cannot be devotees of Maryada Purushottam Ram," the AICC general secretary said on Thursday.

"We believe in ethics and in the Constitution. A Ram temple will come up in Ayodhya only when the Congress comes to power. That is for sure," Rawat told reporters in Rishikesh.