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Centre hopes SC would clear doubts
over puja

Onkar Singh in New Delhi

The Centre hopes that the Supreme Court would clear the confusion that is prevailing in the country regarding the bhumi puja to be undertaken by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in Ayodhya on March 15.

Talking to rediff.com, Minister of State for Home Affairs I D Swami said that the Union government would follow the instructions of the apex court.

"Let us wait and see what happens in the Supreme Court on March 13, when the apex court takes up the petitions pending before it for hearing. We are hopeful that by the evening of Wednesday the situation would be clear," Swami said.

He, however, refused to answer whether the government would ask the court to allow a symbolic bhumi puja with certain restrictions.

"We will put forward our viewpoint before the court," he said.

When asked why he had recommended the lifting of restrictions on movement of trains and karsevaks to Ayodhya, Swami claimed that the media had misquoted him.

"What I had said was that the district administration should lift restrictions on movement of locals living in Ayodhya and Faizabad. The administration had banned the movements of vegetables to the place in the name of security arrangements. That is not the kind of thing that we wanted. People within the city should be allowed to move and those who want to go to the temple should be allowed. I see nothing wrong in it," he said.

"The media had misquoted me. I never said that."

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