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Paramhans insisted on PMO
man receiving the shilas

Ram Janmbhoomi Nyas chief Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans forced Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to send his emissary to receive the shilas in Ayodhya on Friday.

Shatrughan Singh, who heads the Ayodhya cell in prime minister's office, was flown in a UP government aircraft from Delhi on Friday morning after the Mahant insisted that he would hand over the carved stones only to a representative of the prime minister's office.

No one knows what provoked the change in his stand. Earlier, the Mahant had agreed to hand over the shilas to Faizabad Divisional Commissioner Anil Kumar Gupta, who is Central government's receiver for the acquired land in Ayodhya.

At one point of time, it turns out, Paramhans was insisting that the pujari of the Ram Janmbhoomi temple (a makeshift temple at the site where the masjid stood before its demolition) should accept the shilas.

This, however, was unacceptable to the government and the PMO emissary was the compromise worked about between the Mahant and the UP administration.

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