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New Delhi: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on August 5 charged the Opposition with making Ayodhya its whipping boy in the absence of any other issue even as several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs asked the government to act fast on Ram temple, Uniform Civil Code and population control.

Chairing the Parliamentary Party meeting in the absence of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, the Deputy Prime Minister said a final decision on the issue of synchronising Lok Sabha and Assembly elections would be taken only after wide consultations within the party, government, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and different political parties.

He said though half of the monsoon session was over, the Opposition, particularly the Congress, had no other issue, except repeatedly raising the Ayodhya issue.

Advani praised Vajpayee and Law Minister Arun Jaitley for effectively countering the Opposition's baseless allegations against the government and exposing it, party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra told reporters after the meeting.

PTI