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"We are not hopeful. We are not getting any feedback (from the government)," VHP international general secretary Pravin Togadia told reporters in Bangalore as he warned of an intensified stir if land was not given to build the temple.
Togadia, who was replying to a query about Prime Minister A B Vajpayee's hope of finding a solution before March 12, said, "We are only getting positive good wishes, but we are not observing any positive (government) action."
Vajpayee, he said, had held discussions once with VHP leaders, including the organisation's secretary general Ashok Singhal, some time back, but added that they were not getting any 'concrete feedback'.
Sticking to the VHP's stand that the government must hand over possession of the land, Togadia said, "Sadhus and sants from across the country would meet in Delhi on January 27 next to finalise the next course of action."
"The January 27 meeting will be the last programme to give a warning to the central government," he said. "If they do not give the land, there will be a mass agitation."
Togadia said, in the past, central governments had lost power whenever they opposed construction of Ram temple and cited the examples of the governments of Rajiv Gandhi, P V Narasimha Rao and V P Singh.
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