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No commitment to abide by court's verdict: VHP

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Wednesday said that the Ram Janambhoomi Trust has not given any commitment to abide by the court verdict in the Ayodhya dispute, but has only agreed to maintain a status quo.

"We have not given any undertaking that we will abide by any verdict given by the court. We have said that the status quo will be maintained. I am telling you the exact sentence," VHP senior vice president Acharya Giriraj Kishore said in New Delhi.

The significant statement came when reporters grilled him on whether the Trust president Mahant Paramhans Ramchandra Das had given any undertaking that it would abide by the court verdict, as reported in the press following Kanchi Shankaracharya's statement on Tuesday.

While sticking to the undertaking that the status quo would be maintained, he said, "At no cost the Babri mosque will be allowed to be rebuilt at the disputed site. For all practical purposes, it was a temple of Ram lalla. It is and it will remain so."

Asked what would be the VHP's response if the court ruled in favour of Muslims, he said, "The court verdict cannot be against history. It was on the court's orders that the temple's locks were opened and there are court orders that uninterrupted puja be allowed at the disputed site."

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