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New Delhi: With a view to building pressure on the government ahead of the coming Assembly elections, VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) has convened a meeting of its apex decision making body in New Delhi on September 13 to decide its future strategy if the Centre fails to bring in a legislation to facilitate construction of the Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

The crucial two-day meeting of the Margdarshak Mandal would be the first conclave of the VHP top brass after the July 10 meet of the high-power panel of the Ram temple agitation committee which demanded a legislation to facilitate temple construction and handing over of the disputed shrines at Kashi and Mathura to Hindus.

It would also be the first meeting after the demise of the mercurial chief of the Ram Janambhoomi Nyas Mahant Paramhams Ramchandra Das. Sangh parivar and BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) top brass leaders including Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani had resolved by his funeral pyre to fulfil his last wish of seeing a Ram temple constructed at Ayodhya.

"The meeting has been called to chalk out our future course of action if the government fails to bring in a legislation in the current session of Parliament to facilitate the construction of the temple," VHP Senior Vice-President Acharya Giriraj Kishore told reporters.

He said the meeting would be preceded by a meeting of the high-power panel led by former BJP MP Mahant Avaidyanath, Kishore said.

PTI