Raking up his favourite Hindutva agenda, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately allot the land for Ram Mandir construction in Ayodhya and declare Rama Setu as national heritage.
In a detailed letter, he argued that the legal advisors of Central Government wrongly sought Supreme Court’s permission to hand over the undisputed land of 67 acres to Ram Janambhumi Nyas Samit, while the Centre was empowered to decide itself.
“This submission of the Solicitor General was erroneously made on two counts. (a) that the Government requires no permission whatsoever of the Supreme Court to hand over the nationalised Ayodhya land and which is in the possession of the Government. By virtue of Article 300A of the Constitution, and numerous case l aw of the Supreme Court on land acquisition, the Union Government has Eminent Domain to takeover anybody’s land or property in public interest, said Swamy citing Narasimha Rao Government’s affidavit, pointing out that all parties except Ram Janmabhumi Nyas Samiti had accepted compensation.
“Therefore the Government under power vested in it by the Constitution can allocate, for any public purpose, to anybody the Ayodhya land (including disputed land) without the permission of the Supreme Court. All that the Government is required, as courtesy, is to assure the Court that just compensation will be paid to the decided title holder as determined by the Supreme Court. In fact as a generosity both the parties can be paid compensation if they withdraw their respective appeals in the Supreme Court before adjudication,†said Swamy
In his 22 page long letter and documents to the Prime Minister, Swamy citied the Narasimha Rao Government’s affidavit and Cabinet decision to allot land to Hindu’s if archeological survey finds the existence of a temple.
He also cited his argument points before the Supreme Court’s mediation panel on the matter.
The BJP MP also urged the Prime Minister that the Government must declare Rama Setu as national heritage and declare it before the Supreme Court, were the next hearing is scheduled
on July 1. “After you become Prime Minister and subsequently in 2018 the Supreme Court was informed when I raised the matter again, that Rama Setu will not be touched; but the issue of making Rama Setu as National Heritage Monument, although according to my information was cleared by the
Ministry of Culture, did not come up for approval at the Cabinet level for whatever reason,†said Swamy.
