Politicians misusing Ayodhya issue: Shankaracharya

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Lucknow, Nov 21 (UNI) Jagatguru Shankaracharya of Jyotish Shardapith Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has accused politicians and some political parties of misusing the Ayodhya issue for their vested interest.

''These political parties and politicians only want to derive mileage out of Ayodhya, rather than solving the vexed issue,'' the Shankarancharya alleged.

Talking to mediapersons here, Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati said the main issue before the politicians should be to unite the Hindu community. ''But they are doing exactly the opposite...this is not good,'' he lamented.

''There is no real motive before the politicians to solve the decades old issue,'' he further maintained.

He said he would not talk about the Babri Masjid as it was up to the Muslims to raise the issue.

The Shankarancharya, who would be visiting Ayodhya later this month, said his visit should be linked only with religion. ''No political colour should be added to it,'' he added.

The Seer, however, refused to react on the statement of senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi who had asked him to stay away from the Ram temple movement, as the seer has always tried to ''disintegrate the movement dear to all the Hindus''.

''The seer has always tried to create divisions in the movement and it is better that he leaves the movement in the hands of the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust and Ramanand sect of the Hindus,'' Dr Joshi had said in reaction to a query pertaining to the Shankaracharya's plans of performing a 'parikrama' of the Ram Janmabhoomi on November 30.

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