Jammu, July 10: All India Congress Committee (AICC) Media and Publicity Department chairman and MP Pawan Khera on Friday reiterated the demand for Supreme Court-monitored high-level probe into Ayodhya Ram temple donation row.
Taking exception to, what he alleged, the “silence by the Prime Minister” on this issue, he also demanded the dissolution of existing temple Trust and its reconstitution with the inclusion of Shankaracharyas, saints and other religious heads.
Addressing a press conference at Rajiv Bhawan today, Khera, joined by JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla, chief spokesperson Ravider Sharma and other senior leaders, expressed concern over great resentment amongst people over, what he said, “big financial fraud vis-à-vis donations at holy Ram temple, hurting the religious sentiments of the Hindus in the country.”
“Prime Minister should break his silence and seek apology from the country for this theft in the temple. We want a high level impartial, independent probe headed by a sitting or retired High Court judge – monitored by the Supreme Court as the people had no faith in the existing SIT. Besides, the Trust should be handed over to committees (samitis) of religious, spiritual heads, Shankaracharyas,” he sought.
Khera accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of “being complicit in the temple donation theft.”
