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New Delhi: A day after the fall of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in Uttar Pradesh, state BJP president Vinay Katiyar on August 26 declared the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report on Ayodhya would be a key issue in the next UP Assembly polls.

Katiyar, who arrived in Delhi from Lucknow on August 25 night, said "we will contest the elections on the five years' performance of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre and the ASI report which has vindicated our consistent claim that a temple predated the Babri structure at the disputed site."

The Faizabad MP, who was founder-president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) youth wing - Bajrang Dal - and was in the forefront of the Ram Temple agitation, also appealed to Muslims to take the initiative to return the Ram Janamsthan in the wake of the ASI findings that were submitted to the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court last week.

"Such a move will go a long way towards establishing goodwill and fraternal relations between the two communities", he added.

PTI