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Ayodhya: Continuing with its efforts to thrash out a lasting solution to the vexed Ayodhya issue, the newly formed Ayodhya Jama Masjid Trust (AJMT) has begun talks with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) backed Ram Janambhoomi Nyas even as the Sangh Parivar outfit has insisted that the Sunni Central Waqf Board withdraw the case pending before the court.

AJMT managing trustee S A A Rizvi said that all the people consulted over the issue so far were keen to resolve it and efforts were on to initiate interaction between different Hindu and Muslim organisations for finding a peaceful negotiated settlement.

Rizvi, who claimed to be in regular touch with the PMO and Union Minister of State for Home and Centre's Pointsman for Ayodhya Swami Chinmayand, said he has worked out a "simple formula" for resolving the tangle which could be implemented only by keeping "vested interests of both communities at bay."

According to him, the different Muslim petitioners connected with the Ayodhya case could be made to forego their claim over the disputed area if the Government provided them with adequate land for constructing a 'Jama Masjid' elsewhere in the temple town.

However, when contacted, Nyas President Mahant Nritya Gopal Das said he has asked Rizvi to take into confidence Sunni Central Waqf Board, the main party in the case, before starting a dialogue.

VHP media incharge Sharad Sharma also said the whole exercise would be "fruitless" unless the board withdraws the case from the court.

The trust has identified the land in front of the house of the main plaintiff Hashim Ansari as suitable for building the proposed Jama Masjid and would request the commissioner, Faizabad, to provide it to the trust, rizvi said.

Justifying the AJMT's stand favouring construction of the Ram temple at the acquired land, he wondered as to how the idols of Ram Lalla kept at the makeshift temple in the disputed site would be removed even if the court decision was in favour of the Muslims.

The centre should request the Supreme Court to consider only 80 x 40 feet area at the acquired land as disputed in the pending cases and rest of the land in the 67 acres may be utilised for starting construction of the Ram temple.

Terming his talks with the Nyas Chief and Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath as "positive", Rizvi said he has also met VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Vishnu Hari Dalmiya.

In order to establish better co-ordination and mutual understanding between Hindus and Muslims as also bring forward the intelligentsia on one platform to understand the ground realities, the trust now proposed to convene a combined National Unity Conference of Intellectuals at Ayodhya on November 30, he said.

According to AJMT media incharge, Narayan Misra, who also belongs to the Digambar Akhara, the conference would make an effort to check divisive forces in different communities "who have repeatedly sabotaged efforts to resolve the imbroglio".

Misra said the trust was also thinking of filing a PIL for setting up a special bench in Supreme Court to hear Ayodhya related cases.

PTI