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Ayodhya: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Ashok Singhal on July 8 asked political parties to clarify whether they favoured a Central legislation to resolve the Ayodhya dispute, but threatened to launch an agitation if they chose to issue whips to oppose such a law.

"Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party, other parties and those belonging to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) should decide not to issue the whip in pursuance of their party policies and allow the Members of Parliament (MPs) to vote freely," he told a press conference.

But in case a whip is issued, "we will have no other option but to launch a mass movement against these parties, which oppose the construction of a temple", he said.

The political parties have to decide whether they are prepared to bring in such a legislation to support the construction of a temple in Ayodhya, the VHP president said.

The parties that do not support the legislation would stand exposed, he said.

Singhal, who on July 7 held a closed-door meeting of senior VHP functionaries in Lucknow before arriving ion Ayodhya, has convened another meeting on July 11 to chalk out the VHP's further course of action in the wake of All India Muslim Personal Law Board rejecting Kanchi Shankaracharya's proposals to solve the Ayodhya issue.

PTI